1910 ..... FRANCE ..... FIRST aeroplane reconnaissance mission was flown by Captain Marconnet and Lt Fequant of the French army

1922 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST American sound-on-film motion picture - Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address - was presented in the Physics Building of the University of Illinois. It was not released commercially

1929 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST British sound newsreel, British Movietone, showed the Derby and the Trooping of the Colour

1931..... CHINA .....  the Davis escape apparatus was FIRST used in an emergency when 6 men escaped from HM submarine Poseidon, which had sunk off China

1959 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST ballistic missile submarine in the world was the George Washington and it was launched in America

1975 ..... U.K .....  the FIRST live broadcast of a House of Commons debate was relayed by the BBC and LBC (London Broadcasting)

1993 ..... U.K ..... Shanti Thomas became the FIRST woman artist-in-residence at Gatwick Airport

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