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1678 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Godiva Procession was held as part of the Coventry Fair to commemorate Lday Godiva's legendary ride naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry over six hundred years ago
1859 ..... U.K ..... Big Ben FIRST began recording time in London
1868 ..... FRANCE ..... the FIRST recorded bicycle race took place in France and was won by James Moore of Britain
1915 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST attack on London by Zeppelin airships took place. 3000 lbs of bombs were dropped in N E London killing 7 people and injuring 14
1919 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST wedding performed in an aeroplane was over Houston, Texas when Marjorie Dumont wed Lt R W Meade
1930 ..... cricketer Don Bradman became the FIRST Australian to score 1000 runs in England by the end of May
1938 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST game show Spelling Bee was broadcast by the BBC in London
1962 ..... ISRAEL ..... the FIRST execution to take place in the State of Israel was that of Adolf Eichman , the former SS officer. He was hanged in Tel Aviv for his part in the murder of more than a million Jews
1965 ..... U.S.A ..... Jim Clark of Britain became the FIRST non-American winner of the Indianapolis 500 race
1988 ..... FRANCE ..... Remy Bricka became the FIRST person to 'walk' across the Atlantic Ocean when he left the Canary Islands on two 4.2m floating polyester skis and arrived in Trinidad on this day
1995 ..... U.K ..... the television series Castles began and it was the FIRST drama that the BBC had ever commissioned from an ITV company
1997 ..... U.K ..... scientists at Manchester University claimed a world FIRST when they proved that chocolate bars were good for the brain. The team was led by Dr Jonathan Forster of Manchester and Sandra Sunram of Wurzbug University
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