Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.

Sir Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philippine–American War end.

The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in over the Bosphorus Istanbul, Turkey is completed.

Steve Fossett is the first to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

The CIA’s Phoenix Program starts.