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1891 ..... U.K ..... the curtain rose for the FIRST time at the Palace Theatre in Manchester with a production of Cleopatra. It was originally billed as the Palace Theatre of Varieties and on this first night was sold out to its original capacity of 3675 seats
1907….. U.K ..... the Women’s Labour League in London held its FIRST conference. It was chaired by Mrs Ramsay Macdonald
1910 ….. FRANCE ..... the FIRST Air Traffic Conference was held in Paris
1912 ….. Professor Mallada of the Royal Observatory at Mt Vesuvius became the FIRST person to descend to the bottom of the volcano’s crater
1927….. U.S.A ..... the FIRST footprints outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood were those of Norma Talmadge. Legend has it that she stepped on the wet cement by accident thereby giving the theater owner the idea for his celebrated pavement
1950 ….. Jimmy Mullen became England’s FIRST substitute in a soccer international when he went on for Jackie Milburn against Belgium in Brussels
1953 ….. Jacqueline Cochrane became the FIRST woman to fly faster than sound
1991 ..... SPACE ..... Helen Sharman became the FIRST Briton in space when she began her week long stay with Soviet cosmonauts on the Mir space station
1996 ….. U.K ..... Mike Lancaster became the FIRST comedian ever to appear at the 19,500-seater Nynex Arena in Manchester
1998???….. U.K ..... Ken Cooper became the FIRST person to answer questions on the fictional soap, Coronation Street, when he appeared on Mastermind
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