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1850 ..... Franz Liszt conducted the FIRST performance of Wagner’s opera Lohengrin which contains the Bridal Chorus ‘ Here Comes the Bride’
1859 ..... U.S.A ..... the world’s FIRST oil well was drilled in Titusville, PA by Edwin L Drake. He struck oil and so began a process that eventually funded much large scale geological research in the search for more oil
1872 ..... U.S.A ..... the world’s FIRST Wild West Show was presented by showman Sid Barnett
1922 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST advertisement was broadcast in America
1933 ..... U.K ..... the BBC made its FIRST broadcast appeal on behalf of the police for Stanley Hobday who was wanted for murder. Described by the police as having hair 'brushed back with oil. He speaks very quietly and has a reserved disposition'. He had fled after stabbing Charles Fox with a Bowie knife. Eventually he was arrested near Gretna Green, later found guilty and was executed in the December
1939 ..... U.K ..... the Cabinet War Rooms, the British government secret wartime headquarters off Whitehall, London, FIRST opened. In February 2005 it is hoped to establish there the world's FIRST major museum dedicated to the life of Winston Churchill, the wartime leader who was voted the Greatest Briton ever in a 2002 BBC poll. For more details log on to www.churchillmuseum.org.uk
1973 ..... Princess Anne became the first member of the British Royal Family to visit the USSR
2004 ..... U.K ..... Greater Manchester Pride gay parade took place and for the FIRST time one of the armed services took part in the parade when the RAF used the celebration to try to recruit members of the gay community. Until January 2000 the forces were legally allowed to dismiss servicemen and women if they were found to be gay or lesbian
2008 ..... U.S.A ..... Barack Obama became the FIRST black man to accept presidential nomination
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