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The Bank of America introduces its first credit card, the BankAmericard (later renamed the VISA Card), in a test market in Fresno County, California.
Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.
TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in Brazil, begins transmissions on Channel 3 in São Paulo.
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
The Saturday Evening Post publishes the short story "Extricating Young Gussie" by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the first appearance of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.
In Washington, D.C., George Owen Squier demonstrated the first system to allow multiplexing of telephone transmissions, sending a message between two laboratories of the U.S. Signal Corps.
Veal Oscar, a dish of veal, seafood, asparagus, and Bernaise sauce, is first served at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, in honour of the 25th anniversary of the reign of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norw�
The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
The first provincial election for the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly after Canada's Confederation returns a large majority for the Anti-Confederation Party, led by William Annand, who becomes Premie�
The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.