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The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which is later suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.