First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
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First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état.
Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico.
Louise Brown, English woman, first person to be born through in vitro fertilization
Andrew Lawson, Scottish-Canadian Geologist, first to identify and name the San Andreas Fault (died 1952)
The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first year of the Ten'o (天応) era).
Earliest day on which the Feast of Kamál (Perfection) can fall, while August 1 is the latest; observed on the first day of the eighth month of the Baháʼí calendar. (Baháʼí Faith)
A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.