1575 ….. ITALY ..... Diana Scultori Ghisi became the FIRST female artist to be given permission by Pope Gregory X111 to sign her own name on her engravings

1922 ..... U.K ..... Margaret Davies was elected the FIRST woman President of the Co-operative Congress

1937….. U.K ..... FIRST edition of Woman and Beverley Nichols " the man who speaks his mind" wrote an essay called The hand that rocks the cradle rules precisely nothing

1942 ….. U.K ..... the Co-operative Society of Romford launched Britain's FIRST self-service grocery store, a forerunner of the FIRST British supermarket at Manor Park (1948)

1964 ..... SPACE ..... Blue Streak was the FIRST rocket launched in Britain taking her into the space age. The 69 ft rocket was launched at Woomera, Australia and was a simplified civilian version which had been designed for research and satellite launching purposes. Blue Streak had originally been planned as Britain’s FIRST nuclear weapon carrier but was scrapped due to costs of £7 a minute to fund it

1988 ..... AUSTRALIA ..... Kay Cottee, an Australian, became the FIRST person to sail alone around the world and without a stop-over. She arrived in Sydney in her boat First Lady after a voyage which had lasted over 6 months. A Sydney boat builder, she crossed the finishing line after 191 days and 25,000 nautical miles at sea

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