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1824 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Mechanics Institution in England " for the instruction of mechanics at a cheap rate in the principles of the art they practise, as well as in all other branches of useful knowledge" was opened in London. In the first six months thirty more were set up in major cities and eventually there were 400 of them all over the country

1901 ..... U.S.A ..... King C Gillette patented the world’s FIRST safety razor 

1929 ..... U.K ..... Britain’s FIRST 22 public telephone boxes came into service 

1942 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST controlled nuclear chain reaction was achieved by the U.S. physicists Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Edward Teller in a squash court at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field 

1943 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST Bevin Boys, drawn from young men called up for the Armed Forces, went down British mines 

1959 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST film made as a ‘smellie’ was Behind the Great Wall.  It was a wide screen travelogue about China and was accompanied by a range of 72 smells which were circulated through the ventilating system of the cinema 

1988 ..... PAKISTAN ..... Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan was sworn in as the FIRST woman Prime Minister of a modern Islamic nation. One of her first announcements was that her government would “ cancel all laws that deprive women of their rights”. She also released a number of female prisoners 

1997 ….. U.K ..... for the FIRST time Granada TV and the BBC joined together in aid of Childline

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