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1925 ..... U.S.A  ..... Nellie Taylor Ross became the FIRST female governor in U.S history

1926 ..... U.K ..... widows pensions were issued for the FIRST time at Post Offices in the UK 

1928 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST state pensions for people over 65 in the UK was ten shillings and on this day there were 466,000 recipients 

1948 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST episode of Mrs Dale’s Diary was broadcast. Scheduled to run for six weeks only the programme carried on for twenty one years. Mrs Dale was cast as the ideal English woman and became a national mother figure

1965 ..... U.K ..... Prince William of Gloucester became the FIRST member of the Royal family to enter commerce when he joined the City banking house of Lazard Bros

2004 ..... U.K ..... Britain's FIRST black chief constable, Mike Fuller, formally took charge of the Kent police force

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