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John Willis Menard (R-LA) becomes the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he is never seated.
English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.
The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.