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1851
..... U.S.A ..... the New York Times was FIRST published1867
..... U.K ..... the FIRST Manchester policeman was murdered on duty. Sergeant Charles Brett was escorting three prisoners to Belle Vue Prison on Hyde Road when the van was attacked and the prisoners were rescued. Three men were hanged for his murder and they became known as the Manchester Martyrs1879 ….. U.K ..... Blackpool Illuminations were FIRST lit and were the world's FIRST seaside illuminations
1900
..... U.K ..... the FIRST British documentary Army Life, or How Soldiers Are Made, was premiered at the Alhambra in London1907
..... U.K ..... the FIRST conference of the United Methodist Church was held in the chapel of John Wesley in Islington, London. It was a 3 way merger of the United Methodist Free Churches, the Methodist Connexion and the Bible Christians and had first been thought of at the 1901 Ecumenical Conference. The new Church had 184,000 members and 908 ministers1939
..... U.K ..... Lord Haw-Haw’s voice was heard on the airwaves for the FIRST time, only two weeks after Britain declared war on Germany. He continued to address the British public throughout the war until 30th April 1945. The man behind the voice was William Joyce, an American, who was given his nickname by a journalist at the Daily Express. On 31st January 1946 William Joyce was hanged at Wandsworth for high treason after a complex case involving major principles of law1953
..... U.K ..... England's FIRST Social Welfare Centre was opened in Salford1968 ..... SPACE ..... the Soviet's Zond 5 became the FIRST spacecraft to orbit the moon then return to Earth
1997
….. U.K ..... a First World War soldier, Lance Sergeant Joseph William Stones, who was executed for cowardice, became the FIRST to have his name added to his home town's war memorial when Wear Valley Council became the FIRST council to honour one of those who were executed during WW1 and later pardoned2006 ..... SPACE ..... Anousheh Ansari became the FIRST female space tourist when she paid £10m for an 11 day round trip to the International space Station 220 miles above the earth
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