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1783 ..... FRANCE ..... the FIRST free ascent of a balloon (the Globe) was made from the Champ de Mars in Paris when it rose to about 3,000 feet, drifted for 45 minutes and came to earth at Gonesse, 15 miles away.
1900 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST long distance bus service was the weekly 200 mile journey from London to Leeds which took 2 days
1910 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST flight from London to Manchester was by Louis Paulhan. it took 4 hours 12 minutes with an overnight stop ..... and ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST aeroplane equipped with radio was flown over the racetrack at Sheepshead Bay, New York, by Canadian pilot J A D McCurdy
1943 ….. GERMANY ..... the German Luftwaffe launched its HS 293, the FIRST air-to-surface guided missile, in a successful attack on HMS Egret in the Bay of Biscay
1950 ..... U.K ..... the BBC transmitted live pictures across the Channel from France for the FIRST time. The presenters of the two hour programme was Richard Dimbleby and Alain Adair. The programme, watched by 30,000, was then beamed by microwave to Dover and relayed to London
1981 ..... U.K ..... Moira Stuart became the FIRST black woman newsreader for the BBC in London
1997 ..... U.K ..... Wendy Toms became the FIRST woman to officiate in a premiership game in football
2005 ..... U.K ..... for the FIRST time the Army and Help The Aged joined in the Manchester Gay Parade
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