1692 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST of the Salem “witches” was hanged. She was Bridget Bishop, one of 150 respectable people accused of witchcraft by a group of hysterical girls in the isolated Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts

1731 ..... U.S.A ..... Catherine Bevan became the FIRST and only woman in America to be strangled to death at the stake and then her body burned

1829 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race took place - 2 1/4 miles from Hambledon Lock to Henley Bridge. Oxford won in a time of 14mins 30 secs. It became so popular that within ten years it had developed into a full scale regatta and became known as the Henley Royal Regatta

1909 ..... the SOS distress signal was broadcast for the FIRST time as the Cunard liner S S Slavonia was wrecked off the Azores

1915 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST presentation of three dimensional films were three short subjects made in an anagylphic process and presented at the Astor Theater, New York

1943 ….. the FIRST ballpoint pen was patented by Lazlo Biro and was manufactured the following year

1965 ..... U.K ..... a British European Airways de Havilland jet airliner from Paris made the FIRST automatic landing, relying entirely on instruments ..... and ..... U.K ..... the FIRST woman elected to a stock exchange with a trading floor was Miss C.V Ward, a partner in the firm of Walter Ward, when she became a member of the Sheffield Stock Exchange

1995 ..... U.K ..... Premier Radio, the FIRST Christian radio in the UK was launched in London ….. and U.K ..... the FIRST legal open-air dance party in Manchester was held in Wythenshawe Park

1997 ..... U.K ..... Patsy Cohen was the FIRST woman to hole-in-one at the new St. Andrew's Major Golf Club in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales

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