1876 ….. U.K ..... Scots-born Alexander Graham Bell patented the FIRST telephone, literally hours before a similar patent was lodged by American Elisha Gray 

1900 ….. U.S.A ..... the FIRST screen kiss was between May Irwin and John Rice in the film The Widow Jones. The movie was also the FIRST to receive a review 

1949 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST test of Avro's  'Shackleton' took place at Woodford in Cheshire

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