1876 ….. U.K ..... the Penny Bank of the Co-operative Society in Pendleton, Salford, FIRST began. By December there were 126 depositors with investments amounting to £71.00

1885 ..... the Christmas carol ‘Away in a Manger’ FIRST appeared in print

1901..... wireless telegraphy at sea was tried for the FIRST time aboard the liner, Lusitania

1930 ..... U.K ..... Kathleen Murphy became the FIRST woman to enter the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London when mixed bathing was allowed for the FIRST time

1948 ….. Miss Macao, the Cathay Pacific Airways Catalina flying boat, was the FIRST aeroplane to be hijacked when it was seized by a gang of Chinese bandits

1954 ..... U.K ..... Belle Vue Stadium (Manchester, UK) hosted its FIRST stock car meeting and Londoner Freddie Parsons won the FIRST-ever Belle Vue race

1963 ..... SPACE ..... Valentina Tereshkova became the FIRST woman to travel in space when she was launched in Vostok 6 and completed 48 orbits of the earth in 71 hours

1998 ….. Elizabeth (surname not known) from Florida became the FIRST woman to give birth live on the Internet when her fourth child, Sean, was born

2003 ..... U.K ..... Jamie Whitaker, Britain's FIRST so-called ' designer' baby, was born to Jayson and Michelle Whitaker in the hope that his cells would help to cure their young son Charlie who has a rare form of anaemia

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