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1324 ..... IRELAND ..... Petronilla de Meath was the FIRST witch to be burned at the stake in Ireland
1894
..... U.K ..... the FIRST ever Manchester League Derby (the teams had met before in the Manchester Cup). The score was Manchester City 2, Newton Heath (Manchester United forerunners) 51912 ….. the FIRST pilot to be killed in warfare was the Bulgarian M Popoff, while making a reconnaissance over Adrianople
1952
….. U.K ..... the FIRST Royal Variety Performance was held for the new Queen Elizabeth 111957
..... SPACE ..... Laika, a Russian mongrel dog, became the FIRST living creature in space but sadly she died when her oxygen supply ran out after 10 days1973 ..... SPACE ..... America launched Mariner 10 on the FIRST dual-planet mission - Venus and Mercury
1975
..... the FIRST underwater pipe-line to bring North Sea oil ashore was opened by Queen Elizabeth 11. It ran 110 miles along the seabed from BP’s Forties Field and then 127 miles underground to the Grangemouth refinery on the Firth of Forth. It was hoped that the pipeline would eventually produce 400,000 barrels per day1996
..... ITALY ..... Cecilia Monge Teran de Erazo, a married Ecuadorian mother became the FIRST woman to be ordained a Christian priest in Rome
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