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1833 ….. U.K ..... the Manchester Statistical Society was formed - the FIRST one in England 

1908 ….. Annie Smith Peck became the FIRST person to climb the highest peak in the Peruvian Andes - Mt Huacsaran

1931 ….. U.S.A ..... Bing Crosby made his FIRST solo radio broadcast on station KHJ in Los Angeles on behalf of the Leroy Diamond Company 

1955 ..... U.K ..... commercial television (ITV) FIRST began in Britain 

1958 ..... China opened its FIRST television station at Peking 

1988  ..... 12 women became the FIRST all-female crew to start the tough 34,000 mile Whitbread Round The World Race. The Maiden was skippered by Tracy Edwards 

1996 ..... U.K .....  Marks and Spencer opened its FIRST department store in London with more space devoted to selling champagne than any other store in Britain. It also offered a monogram service for shirts, handmade silk ties and personal assistants who gave free advice on putting an outfit together

2002 ..... the Co-op supermarket chain (England) launched the country's FIRST degradable carrier bag which will degrade to practically nothing within three years as opposed to the standard bags which take about 100 years ..... and ..... legal history was made when an Australian court sat for the FIRST time in Ireland to take evidence from Dubliner Garry Mulligan who had been paralysed in a freak accident while swimming on a beach north of Sydney in 1999

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