1820 ..... U.K ..... Ludwig Spohr was the FIRST conductor to use the baton in England

1829 ..... U.K ..... the Metropolitan Police Force was FIRST created by Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who brought into being London “Bobbies” or “Peelers”. At first they met with a great deal of hostility and suspicion

1846 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST baseball match took place at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey

1891 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST water was admitted to the world famous Manchester Ship Canal in England from Ellesmere Port to Eastham Locks

1905 ..... U.S.A ..... the world’s FIRST all-motion picture theatre opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Admission was 10 cents

1910 ..... U.S.A ..... Father’s Day was observed for the FIRST time in America after an idea suggested by Mrs John Bruce Dodd in memory of her father, William Smart, who had raised six children. Several years later President Wilson gave it its official blessing and declared that the third Sunday in June would be Father’s Day in America. During WW2 American troops brought the custom with them to England.  According to Mrs Dodd’s original instructions fathers were only entitled to a single red rose and he is supposed to make a fuss of his family for the rest of the day ….. and ..... GERMANY ..... the FIRST Zeppelin airliner “Deutschland” was launched

1917..... RUSSIA ..... the FIRST women’s army battalion was formed in Russia

1931 ….. the FIRST cross-Channel flight by a glider was made by Lissaint Beardmore, a Canadian opera singer, who flew from Kent to Boulogne

1953 ..... U.S.A ..... Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in New York, the FIRST US civilians to go to the electric chair for spying. They were also the FIRST married couple to suffer the death penalty in the U.S. They were sentenced to death for having conspired to give secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union and the sentence was carried out 2 years, 2 months and 14 days after it had been passed

1976 ..... SPACE ..... Viking 1, a US space probe, was the FIRST spacecraft ever to soft land on a planet other than Earth

1978 ..... U.K ..... Ian Botham became the FIRST man to score a century and take 8 wickets in a Test innings

1996 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST ever Chadwick Lecture on public health was given by Emeritus Professor Medicine, Sir Douglas Black, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

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