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1897 ..... U.K ..... Batley beat St Helens 10-3 at Headingley in Leeds to win the FIRST Northern Union Cup, now the R.L. Challenge Cup
1900 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST issue of the Daily Express, founded by Arthur Pearson, appeared in London
1916 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST shots in the Battle for Irish Independence were fired by a group of part-time freedom fighters on this Easter Monday. One of the FIRST volunteers to answer the call was the Countess Constance Markiewicz ( the Red Countess who later became the FIRST woman Member of Parliament although she did not take her seat)
1930 ..... AUSTRALIA ..... Amy Johnson arrived in Darwin, Australia and became the FIRST woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1957 ..... U.K ..... Patrick Moore’s Sky at Night was FIRST televised
1983 ..... U.K ..... Cliff Thorburn, a Canadian snooker player, made the FIRST ever televised maximum break of 147 in the world championships at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. It has become one of the greatest moments in the history of snooker and in the sporting history of the Crucible Theatre
1987 ..... the FIRST test of free-living genetically engineered bacteria in the world was carried out when scientists sprayed strawberry fields with bacteria which have had an ice-forming gene deleted
1989 ..... U.K ..... Peter Scudamore became the FIRST National Hunt jockey to ride 200 winners in a season when he won at Towcester with Gay Moore
1997 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Pride and Prejudice Ball was held by the East Cheshire Hospice at Tatton Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire. The ball attracted over 250 members of the Cheshire set and all dressed in the style of the Regency period. Members of the Jane Austen Appreciation Society also attended
2000 ….. U.K ..... the U.K's FIRST museum dedicated to the hatting industry, Hat Works, opened in Stockport Town Centre, Manchester
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