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The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the first transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
Pope Clement XII issues the first papal condemnation of Freemasonry and formally prohibits Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the�
The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
The United Arab Emirates leaves OPEC after six decades of membership, becoming the first member of the organization to do so.
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
Panamanian general election: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
Albert Günther publishes the first study to recognise that the New Zealand tuatara is not a lizard.