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..... U.K ..... the Royal Bank of Scotland’s FIRST Glasgow branch was established1900
..... The Wizard of Oz book on which the famous MGM film is based was FIRST published. Its author Frank L Baum actually wrote 14 books all about Oz1916
..... U.K ..... the FIRST Zeppelin was shot down over England1930
….. U.S.A ..... the Hollywood Reporter FIRST went to press. It was the very FIRST daily trade paper among the palm trees, oranges and roadsters of the movie world. It was then known as The Daily Hollywood Reporter and its FIRST headline was "Indie Revolution", which announced that a mogul named M A Schlessinger had decided to become a moviemaker and producer, aligning with a mass of other independent movie producers. Two pages of telegrams from well-wishers was also published by publisher-owner Billy Wilkerson, including one from Mickey Mouse, already a movie star1934
..... U.K ..... Evangeline Booth became the FIRST woman General in the Salvation Army1939
..... U.K ..... the FIRST 200 Citizens Advice Bureaux opened up around Britain to guide the population through a maze of new regulations and restrictions. They helped victims of bomb damage and gave financial aid to families who could not afford black out materials. The elderly, the handicapped and the crippled were given support which had been denied them by the government’s evacuation scheme. By the end of the year the London CABs had coped with more than a million problems1953
..... U.K ..... Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh became the FIRST woman to hold a cabinet post in a Conservative Government as Minister of Education1955
..... U.K ..... the FIRST Salford Carnival was held and 10,000 people lined the route to the Crescent grounds. The FIRST Carnival Queen was Elsie Payne, aged 17, from Broughton1966
..... the FIRST Britons rowed across the Atlantic. It took Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth 91 days to cover the 3000 miles from Cape Cod to the Aran Isles. It had been a gruelling journey for the two paratroopers in the 22ft. English Rose 111 and John Ridgway later admitted that there was a time when he nearly gave up1986
..... the FIRST transatlantic crossing of the Atlantic by balloon was by Dutchwoman Evelien Brink and fighter pilot Willem Hageman who made the journey from Newfoundland to Almere in Holland in a time of 51 hrs 15 mins. It was also the FIRST transatlantic balloon crossing by a woman2000
….. U.K ..... the FIRST official Merchant Navy Day commemorated the merchant navy's contribution to Britain's war effort and promote it as a career. The official day was introduced by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott but only one Whitehall department flew the red ensign to mark the day
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