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..... U.K ..... the FIRST automatic packaging machine was patented by Samuel Corbett of Birmingham1893 ..... NEW ZEALAND ..... Elizabeth Yates became the FIRST female mayor in the British empire
1897 ..... U.K ..... Charles Jarrett won the FIRST ever motorcycle race around a track at Sheen House, Richmond, Surrey 1907 ..... U.K ..... Florence Nightingale became the FIRST woman to receive the Order of Merit when it was presented to her by Edward V11 1915 ..... U.K ..... women were FIRST employed as permanent staff at Scotland Yard in London 1929 ..... Roger Byrd made the FIRST flight over the South Pole 1932 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST performance of Cole Porter’s The Gay Divorcee was in New York and starred Fred Astaire 1934 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST broadcast of a Royal Wedding was of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina in Westminster Abbey 1944 ….. JAPAN ..... the FIRST night raid on Tokyo by American B29s 1969 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST triple multiple cinema in Britain was the ABC on Lothian Road in Edinburgh
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