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1888 ..... U.K ..... in a Belfast street, a small boy named Johnny Dunlop was riding his tricycle under the supervision of his father. The two rear wheels of the tricycle were the world's FIRST pneumatic tyres and he was testing them. The test was so successful that his father was granted patent number 10607 on 23rd July. By the turn of the century Dunlop tyres were being made in France, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and by the time Dunlop died in 1921 his company was capitalised at 10 million pounds
1912 ..... U.S.A ..... the world’s FIRST parachute jump from an aeroplane was made by Albert Berry over Missouri in America
1940 ..... U.K ..... the liner Queen Elizabeth sailed for the FIRST time when she left the UK in secret, painted dark grey as camouflage, to go into the USA to await the end of the war. She arrived in New York’s Staten Island on March 7th
1985 ..... U.K ..... Prince Charles became the FIRST royal blood donor
1986 ..... Corazon Aquino was sworn in as the FIRST woman President of the Philippines. She became the symbol of Filipino ‘ people’s power’ after the assassination of her husband and was also the FIRST Philippine president not to seek a second term