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2137 BC  ..... FIRST recorded total eclipse of the sun - China

1858  ..... FRANCE ..... the Can-Can was FIRST performed in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in Paris 

1879 ..... the FIRST electric light bulb was Thomas Alva Edison’s Model No.9. He had spent a year looking for a suitable filament and finally tried a carbon thread. He was described as the ‘father of the 20th century’ and believed his own maxim that “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” 

1910 ..... U.S.A ..... the FIRST film by a woman producer, Alice Guy Blache , was  A Child’s Sacrifice. It was released on this day and was the first of almost 300 films produced by her 

1911 ..... U.K ..... Picture, the FIRST fan magazine in Britain, was founded 

1941  ..... women in France were allowed to vote for the FIRST time

1960 ..... U.K ..... the Royal Navy’s FIRST nuclear submarine, the Dreadnought, was launched by Queen Elizabeth at Barrow, where in 1901 the Royal Navy’s FIRST submarine had been launched

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