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1844 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST stone of the Salford Roman Catholic Cathedral was laid
1911 ….. U.S.A ..... the FIRST ever Indianapolis 500 race was won by Ray Harroun driving a Mormon Wasp
1939 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST woman Fellow at a male college was Miss A Bradbury when appointed bursar at Balliol College in London
1942 ….. GERMANY ..... the FIRST British 'thousand bomber raid' of WW2 took place at Cologne
1949 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST British pilot to use his ejection seat in an emergency was J O Lancaster when he left an experimental AWA52 delta wing jet above Coventry
1959 ….. U.K ..... the FIRST flight made by a Hovercraft was by the 4-ton Saunders-Roe SR-NI at Cowes. Between July and September 1962 the FIRST hovercraft public service was run across the Dee Estuary by the 60 knot 24 passenger Vickers-Armstrong VA-3
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