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1660 ….. U.K ..... Oak Apple Day was FIRST celebrated when Charles 11 returned to London on his 30th birthday, following his restoration to the throne
1855 ….. U.S.A ..... the FIRST lighted beacon on the Pacific coast was the Spanish lighthouse at Ballast Point on Point Loma, San Diego, California
1871 ….. U.K ..... Whit Monday became the FIRST Bank Holiday in Britain
1895 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST motion picture of a horse race was of the Epsom Derby
1938 ….. the Radio Gang Show FIRST began on Radio Luxembourg and was sponsored by Lifebuoy soap. Ralph Reader was producer of the show and called himself ' A Holborn Rover' when he started the Boy Scouts Gang Show in the mid-Thirties. His greatest hit was We're Riding Along On The Crest Of A Wave and it became his signature tune for life. The cast included Nan Kennedy, Veronica Brady, Eric Christmas, Dick Francis and supporting Scouts
1943 ….. U.S.A ..... Yankee Doodle Doo was a transatlantic super-show contrived to harmonize with England's new allies, the Yanks, and FIRST began on this day. It was scripted by top American comedy man Hal Block and regular features included Salute With Music and Brothers in Arms. It starred Lesley Mitchell , Slim Allen, Vic Oliver and Billy Ternent and the BBC Dance Orchestra plus the week's guest stars
1953 ….. Mount Everest was conquered for the FIRST time when Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing planted the Union Jack and the flags of India and Nepal on the summit. The news reached London on the morning of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11on June 2nd
1962 ….. U.K ..... the National Commercial Bank of Scotland offered the FIRST Boat bank
1968 ….. U.K ..... Manchester United became the FIRST English club to lift the European Cup with a 4—1 win over Benfica at Wembley
1982 ….. U.K ..... Pope John PauI 11 was the FIRST Pope to visit Britain in 450 years and for the FIRST time since Britain broke away from the Catholic Church in the reign of Henry VIII, a Pope and an Archbishop of Canterbury prayed together at Canterbury Cathedral
1986 ..… U.S.A ..... the FIRST field trials of genetically engineered organisms, genetically awarded tobacco, were run by a company in Wisconsin, America, called Aggrasceius
1997….. U.K ..... Bill Clinton, U.S President was the FIRST foreign leader to address a meeting of the Labour Cabinet in Britain
1999 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST ever exhibition devoted to Buffalo Bill, the US soldier and hero, opened at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. His real name was William F Cody and he was born in Scott County, Iowa in 1846. He began his famous wild west shows in the mid-1880s after a life of adventure as a frontiersman, hunter, scout and cavalry man. In 1887 he brought his show to England. He died on January 10th 1917 and was buried in Denver ..... and ..... Cathy O'Dowd, a South African mountaineer, became the FIRST woman to climb Mount Everest from both sides.
2004 ..... Helen Collins and Ian McNabb became the FIRST couple to get married on Concorde after Manchester Airport was given a licence to conduct weddings on the grounded supersonic jet
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