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1881..... U.S.A ..... Kansas became the FIRST state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

1910 ..... U.K ..... Manchester United played its FIRST game at Old Trafford 

1928 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST speedway meeting on a cinder track took place at High Beech, Essex 

1957 ..... U.K ..... Emergency Ward 10 became the FIRST continuous televised serial in Britain when it was presented twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday. The show ran for 10 years and among the actors who appeared at the Oxbridge Hospital are John Alderton, Ian Hendry and Albert Finney 

1985 ..... U.K .....  Eastenders was FIRST televised

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