1907..... U.K ..... S.F.Edge set the FIRST motoring endurance record by covering 1,581 miles in 24 hours driving a 60hp Napier at the recently opened Brooklands racing circuit

1912 ..... U.S.A ..... Julie Clark became the FIRST American woman to be killed in an aeroplane accident when her Curtiss biplane struck a tree at Springfield Illinois

1928 ..... Amelia Earhart became the FIRST woman to fly across the Atlantic  when she set out with pilots Wilmer Stutz and Louis Gordon on a transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Burry Port in Wales, in the plane, The Friendship. She had made her first transatlantic flight as a passenger but this time she was in control. Four years later she became the FIRST woman to achieve a solo transatlantic flight. She mysteriously vanished on a round-the-world flight in 1937

1950 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST kidney transplant was carried out by Chicago surgeon, R.H.Lawler. The patient was a 44 year old woman with a kidney disorder which had also claimed the lives of other members of her family

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