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1928 ..... U.K ..... the Equal Franchise Act gave the vote to all women over the age of 21 for the FIRST time in Britain
1936 ..... the FIRST Catholic Mass in an airship over the ocean was conducted in the Zeppelin Hindenberg
1953 ..... U.K ..... the song C’est Magnifique was FIRST heard when Cole Porter introduced it in his Broadway show Can-Can at the Schubert Theatre. Between 1953-55 the show clocked up some 892 performances. On October 14th 1954 the show arrived at the London Coliseum
1995 ..... U.K ..... the 1000 Guineas was the FIRST ever Classic horse race to be run on a Sunday
1997 ..... U.K ..... for the FIRST time a Parliamentary Labour Party in power was shown on television. It was also the FIRST time that there had been more than 100 women MPS in a ruling government Party ….. and ….. a Bosnian Serb became the FIRST to be sentenced by a War Crimes Court, for cruelty and torture to Muslim prisoners in his care, since the end of WW2
1999 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST Scottish Parliament for 300 years was elected
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