1905 ..... U.K ..... Britain’s FIRST film censor, Sir Francis Marking, was appointed by the Home Office

1930 ..... U.K ..... Mick the Miller won his second successive Greyhound Derby to become the FIRST dog to win the race twice

1935 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Rupert Bear cartoon was drawn by Albert Bestall

1965 ..... SPACE ..... the Early Bird was the FIRST satellite to relay transatlantic phone calls

2007 ..... IRELAND ..... the Republic of Ireland elected its FIRST black mayor, 43 year old Rotimi Adebari, who had arrived from Nigeria as an asylum seeker in 2000

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