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1776 ..... U.K ..... it was said that the FIRST cocktail was mixed 

1878 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST private telephone call was made by Queen Victoria from her Isle of Wight holiday residence to a house a few hundred yards away  

1896 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST public screening of a film in Britain was at the London headquarters of the Royal Photographic society, 14 Hanover Square, London. The films shown were by Birt Acres  

1926 ..... FRANCE ..... the FIRST arts cinema in the world was the Studio des Ursuline in Paris. It specialised in films of artistic merit  

1937 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST British opinion poll was conducted for Gallup. It was the invention of George Horace Gallup who founded the Gallup Institute in 1935  

1972 ..... DENMARK ..... Queen Margrethe 11 of Denmark became the FIRST Queen in Denmark for over 1000 years when her father King Frederick died. It had taken a great deal of persuasion for the King to break with tradition and nominate his eldest daughter as his heir instead of her brother

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