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1931 ….. U.S.A ..... the FIRST electric razor was manufactured at Stamford in Connecticut 

1934 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST reference in print to the Academy Award of Merit statuette being called an Oscar was in a column by the Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky

1954 ….. U.S.A ..... Howard Hughes became the FIRST sole owner of a major studio when he bought RKO Pictures 

1965 ….. SPACE ..... the Russian cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, became the FIRST man to walk in space when he left Voskhod 2 by crawling through an airlock. He was out of the spaceship for 20 minutes 

1995 ….. U.K ..... for the FIRST time in the charity's history, the Marie Curie Cancer Care was granted a London-wide street permit to collect anywhere in the capital for Daffodil Day ..... and ..... Kerry Straughan became the FIRST woman officer with "Victory"  the world's oldest warship

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