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1477 ..... U.K ..... William Caxton published the FIRST dated book printed in England, a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers  by Earl Rivers 

1858 ….. U.K ..... Big Ben FIRST chimed - it was named after Sir Benjamin Hall and weighed over 13 tons 

1874 ….. the Women's Christian Temperance Union held its FIRST National convention and Annie Wittenmeyer was elected president. It was the first of its kind, being organized by women with an entirely female membership

1928 ..... U.S.A ..... Steamboat Willie was the FIRST Mickey Mouse cartoon 

1933 ..... U.K ..... In Town Tonight was FIRST broadcast on BBC radio with the words " Once again we silence the mighty roar of London's traffic to bring to the microphone some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight". The first show starred Robert Ripley, Christopher Stone, Annette Mills and Bette Davis. Show number 714 made history as the FIRST radio show to be televised simultaneously on April 3rd 1954

1978 ..... U.S.A ..... Mickey Mouse became the FIRST cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

1983 ….. U.K ..... the world's FIRST all-girl sextuplets were born when the Walton girls were born at Wallasey on Merseyside

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