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776 BC ..... GREECE ..... the FIRST Olympic Games opened in Olympia
1904 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST ice-cream cone was created by Charles Menches in St. Louis , Missouri
1950 ….. U.S.A ..... the Gene Autry Show aired for the FIRST time on network television in America. It ran for 91 episodes from 1950-55 and featured new arrangements of classic cowboy tunes and some rare songs. He was the FIRST movie star to make a regular series for television
1997 ..... U.K ..... history was made when for the FIRST time in 127 years hen harriers were raised in Derbyshire and were expertly ringed at their moorland nest 1500’ above the Goyt Valley near Buxton. When the nest was first found the RSPB set up the FIRST public nesting watch in England. Harriers are a protected species
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