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The Louvre (pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the world's most-visited museum, opened with an exhibition of 537 paintings and 184 objets d'art.
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of�
The U.S. Navy submarine Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
Falklands War: HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet missile, killing 20 sailors and leading to its sinking six days later—the first Royal Navy ship sunk in action since World War II.
The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia,�
David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and in�
Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
Battle of Megiddo – the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (died 1966)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, First Lord of the Treasury (died 1715)
American pilot Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.