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1817 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST gold sovereigns were issued in Britain
1841 ..... U.K ..... Thomas Cook launched his FIRST ‘Cook’s Tour’ when he arranged a special train from Leicester to Loughborough for anyone who wanted to attend a temperance meeting
1865 ..... U.S.A ..... the Secret Service was FIRST created by the U.S. Treasury in an attempt to make life difficult for counterfeiters. During the first four years of its existence, the Secret Service arrested approx. 200 counterfeiters per year and after President McKinley was shot in 1901, protecting the life of the U.S. President was added to the list . It was also involved with investigating the Ku Klux Klan, smugglers, mail robbers and agents working in counter-espionage
1909 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST hunger strike in Great Britain was conducted by Miss Marion Wallace Dunlop of Ealing, a suffragette who had been sentenced to one months imprisonment for painting a clause from the Bill of Rights on the walls of the House of Commons. She maintained her fast for 91 hours and was then released
1912 ..... SWEDEN ..... Sarah "Fanny" Durack became the FIRST Australian woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal
1919 ..... U.K ..... Suzanne Lenglen won the women’s final at Wembley and was hailed as the FIRST post-war singles champion and the FIRST from a non-English speaking nation. She beat the 1914 champion Dorothea Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7
1945 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST post-war parliamentary election took place in Salford, Lancashire, and the results were announced three weeks later. There were 3 Labour gains from a 75% poll. In the last parliamentary the seats were all Conservative
1946 ..... FRANCE ..... the FIRST bikini was modelled by a dancer, Micheline Bernardi, at a Paris fashion show, four days after the Americans had detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was made by Louis Reard and the prototype was made of cotton and printed with a newspaper design
1948 ..... U.K ..... Julie McCallum neé Sibbits was the FIRST baby born on the National Health Service as it was being launched. The scheme was based on the Beveridge plan and Maternity Grant, Death Grant, Injury benefit as well as Sickness and Unemployment were among the innovations
1954 ..... U.S.A ..... Elvis Presley made his FIRST commercial recording at Sun Records. The FIRST song put on tape was " Harbor Lights" followed by " I Love You Because". "That's All Right (Mama) was recorded that evening
1966 ..... U.K ..... Batman and Robin were FIRST seen on British television
1975 ..... U.K ..... Arthur Ashe became the FIRST black tennis player to win the men’s singles tennis championship at Wimbledon
1981 ….. U.K ..... CS gas was used by the police in England for the FIRST time. The Toxteth Riots began on July 4th when a false telephone call drew police into a particularly tough part of Toxteth. On the first night 70 policemen were injured, shops looted, cars overturned and buildings set on fire. On the second night Sir Kenneth Oxford, Chief Constable of Merseyside, ordered that the gas be used to disperse rioters
1991 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST British Conference of Women in Music was held in Britain with a series of concerts and workshops celebrating women’s music past and present. It explored the development of feminist musical criticism, the work of women composers and studies relating to music and gender. The Music and Gender conference aimed to establish studies of the latter and to raise general awareness of women's music. A series of concerts and workshops celebrating women's music past and present were held
1996 ..... U.K ..... Dolly the sheep, the world's FIRST cloned mammal, was born at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh. She was created from the mammary gland cell of an adult ewe and her birth immediately led to fears about the implications of cloning. Dolly, a Finn Dorset, was named after the singer Dolly Parton and away from the controversy, found happiness with a Welsh mountain ram called David, giving birth to Bonnie in 1998 and three more lambs the following year. Dolly died in 2003
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