28th
1745
..... U.K ..... God Save the King was FIRST performed publicly at the Drury Lane Theatre during the excitement and alarm caused by the Jacobite invasion of that year. The score used on this occasion was prepared by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) leader of the orchestra and composer of Rule Britannia1865
..... U.K ..... Elizabeth Garrett Anderson qualified as Britain’s FIRST woman doctor when she passed the Apothecaries Hall examination1894
..... U.K ..... Michael Marks and Tom Spencer opened their FIRST stall in Manchester’s public market in Cheetham Hill selling all items for 1p1916
..... U.S.A ..... John D Rockefeller became the world’s FIRST billionaire when there was a boom in share prices on the American Stock Market. In 1907 he owned 247,692 shares in Standard Oil of which he was the founder and on this day each of those shares became worth $2000 each. He owned vast interests in various banks and railway companies as well as enormous blocks of national, state and municipal bonds and was a welcome benefactor to many educational and medical charities1923
..... U.K ..... the FIRST edition of the Radio Times went on sale with a print order of 200,000 copies1950
..... U.K ..... the FIRST British television film drama and the FIRST television film in a scheduled service by the BBC was The Man Who Walks by Night which starred Patricia Jessel and James Cairncross. It was also the FIRST British television drama to be televised on network television in America1959 ..... U.K ..... A Night At The Varieties was the FIRST regular series to be broadcast from the stage of the City Varieties in Leeds. Terry Wilson was Master of Ceremonies and this first show starred Billy Danvers, Margery Manners and the Leeds City Police Choir
1993 ..... U.S.A ..... Hillary Rodham Clinton became the FIRST First Lady to be a lead witness on a major Administrative legislative proposal
1998
….. U.K ..... women were admitted to the Marylebone Cricket Club for the FIRST time ..... and ….. Zoe Ball became the FIRST female DJ to present the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show alone
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