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1923 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST football coupon was handed out by John Moores outside Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground. 35 people tried for a jackpot of £2.12s 

1942 ..... U.S.A ..... Glenn Miller, the American bandleader, was awarded the FIRST ever gold disc for sales of Chattanooga Choo Choo 

1995 ..... SPACE ..... the FIRST Briton to walk in space was Cambridge-educated Dr Mike Foale. His fellow astronaut, Bernard Harris, was the FIRST black man to make the spacewalk. Both were on the US shuttle Discovery from which it was hoped to learn methods which can be applied to the construction of space stations

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