1633 ..... U.K ..... bananas were displayed in London shop windows, the FIRST time that the fruit had been seen in Britain

1710 ..... the FIRST Copyright Act came into being

1848 ….. U.K ..... the very FIRST photograph ever taken of a crowd was of the Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, South London, to which thousands of people had travelled

1849 ….. U.S.A ..... Walter Hunt invented the FIRST safety pin as a means of paying a debt

1924 ..... U.S.A .....the FIRST book of crosswords was published in New York

1933 ..... Lores Bonney became the FIRST woman to fly from Australia to England

1960 ….. U.K ..... the film Hell Is A City, which was filmed in Manchester, was FIRST seen at the Apollo Cinema in Ardwick Green, Manchester

1989 ..... U.S.A ..... Nick Faldo became the FIRST Briton to win golf’s US Masters

1999 ….. U.K ..... Britain's FIRST supermarket wedding took place in Nottinghamshire when Tracey Marshall married Wayne Bowler in the ASDA store in Sutton-in-Ashfield

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