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1905 ..... U.K ..... London County Council decided to set up the FIRST ever motorised ambulance service for traffic accident victims in the capital. Accident victims had previously had to rely on stretchers or vehicles which the police had found and many suffered more injuries before reaching hospital 

1908 ..... SOUTH AFRICA ..... their FIRST cinema was the New Apollo Theatre in Johannesburg 

1958 ..... U.S.A ..... President Eisenhower wished the world a Merry Christmas as his message was relayed around the world for the FIRST time via a satellite 

1996 ..... U.K ..... 105 Gurkas joined the  2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment at Hankley Common, near Hindhead, Surrey. It was the FIRST time in the Nepalese soldiers 180 year association with the Army that they became members of a British Regiment

2005 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST same sex couple in the U.K to " tie the knot" after the law had been changed were two women in Belfast, Northern Ireland - Grainne Close and Shannon Sickels