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????….. U.K ..... Manchester's FIRST waxworks exhibition opened in Market Street and thousands came to look at the effigies of various Royal parsonages, beasts and curiosities ( what year was it ????)
1489 .... AFRICA ..... the Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz became the FIRST European to land on African soil - Mossal Bay, Cape of Good Hope 1730 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Stock Exchange quotations were published in the Daily Advertiser, London1815..... SWITZERLAND ..... the world's FIRST commercial cheese factory was established there
1862..... U.S.A ..... Thomas Edison printed the "Weekly Herald" and distributed it to train passengers travelling between Port Huron and Detroit. It was the FIRST time that a newspaper had been printed on a train
1925 ..... U.S.A ..... Gloria Swanson became the FIRST big movie star to marry a titled foreigner when she married the Marquis de la Falais de la Coudray 1935 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST League of Ovaltineys was advertised as the Children's Concert Party 1948 ..... U.K ..... Elsie Beyer became the FIRST woman General Manager of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford 1962 ..... SWITZERLAND ..... two Swiss mountaineers conquered the North Face of the Matterhorn in the FIRST successful winter attempt 1966 ..... SPACE ..... the FIRST rocket-assisted controlled landing by a spaceprobe on the moon was made by Lunar 9. It sent back the FIRST pictures from the moon’s surface 1981 ..... NORWAY ..... Gro Harlem Bruntland became the FIRST woman Prime Minister of Norway 1984 ..... SPACE ..... the FIRST independent spacewalk using MMU was made by McCandles. The space mission was also the FIRST to end at the launch site1998 ..... U.S.A ..... Karla Faye Tucker became the FIRST woman to be executed in Texas in over 100 years
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