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..... FRANCE ..... the FIRST men carried aloft in a free flight by a balloon were Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d’ Arlandes in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon. They rose 500’ above Paris and after 25 minutes landed a few miles south on the Butte-aux-Cailles 1936 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST television gardening programme was broadcast by the BBC - In Your Garden with Mr Middleton 1941 ..... U.S.A ..... Evelita Juanita Spinelli became the FIRST woman to enter California’s gas chamber and the FIRST woman ever to be officially executed in that state ..... and ..... U.K ..... John Beeley became the FIRST Mancunian to be awarded the Victoria Cross1945 ….. GERMANY ..... the FIRST ever war crimes trial in history began in Nuremberg
1994 ..... U.K ..... Princess Anne left England for a 7 day tour of South Africa and Mozambique - the FIRST official visit to South Africa by a member of the Royal Family for 50 years
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