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USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened with the engine Locomotion pulling wagons with coal and passengers from Shildon t�
Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.
The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 for the feast of archangel Michael, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas.
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.