? Italian navigator leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)
? First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (first US foreign war)
? against rule by the British East India Company begins with the revolt of the Sepoy soldiers in Meerut
The first Transcontinental Railroad is finished at last!
? The is driven, completing the first US at Promontory Summit, Utah, connecting the with the Union Pacific
? succeeds as British Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government
? is sworn in as South Africa's first Black president
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Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland on this day planning to negotiate peace with the British ¨C without the knowledge or approval of his boss, Adolf Hitler.
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