The first-ever all-female golf tournament was held.
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Jean Pierre Blanchard flew the first hot air balloon in the US.
The French Academy of Science announced the first-ever photograph.
Income tax was introduced in the UK so that prime minister William Pitt could collect funds to beat Napoleon.
Steve Jobs announced Apple's very first smartphone, the iPhone 1.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-32.