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In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (died 1891)
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.
Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.