| 27th September 1825 | The firsts world railway is opened
The railway which runs between Stockton and Darlington was designed by George Stephenson. The Rocket steam engine travels with a top speed of 16mph. There are some modern railway companies who are hoping to achieve this speed shortly!
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| 13th February 1826 | The American Temperence Society is formed
First meeting in the Snug of the Dog and Duck.
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| 7th October 1826 | The first railway line in the USA is opened in Massachusetts
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| 6th May 1835 | Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald
Gordon Bennett was known for his public faux pas. On one occasion at a society party he became so drunk that he mistook the fire place for a urinal. It it from this occasions that the exclaimation 'Gordon Bennett!' hails from
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| 22nd October 1836 | Sam Houston becomes the first president of the Texas Republic
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| 6th May 1840 | The worlds first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued
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| 1st July 1841 | Thomas Cook runs his first 'tour' - a train trip to a temperence meeting
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| 24th May 1844 | Samual Morse demonstrates the first telegraph message
For more information see :http://www.babbage.demon.co.uk/morseabc.html
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| 21st December 1844 | The worlds first cooperative society if formed in Rochdale
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| 16th October 1846 | The first operation using local anaesthetic is performed
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| 24th July 1847 | What is to become Salt Lake City is founded by Brigham Young
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| 1st May 1851 | The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace opens
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| 22nd August 1851 | The first Americas cup race is held
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| 24th September 1852 | The first flight of a steam driven balloon
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| 10th January 1863 | The London Tube, the worlds first undergound, opens
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| 17th November 1869 | The Suez Canal opens
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| 10th January 1870 | The Rockefellers found Standard Oil
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| 4th December 1872 | The Marie Celeste is found abandoned
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| 1st August 1873 | San Francisco's cable cars go into operation for the first time
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| 17th May 1875 | The first Kentucky Derby is run
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| 25th August 1875 | Captain Webb becomes the first person to swin the channel
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| 15th October 1878 | The Edison Electric Light company if founded
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| 25th May 1883 | The Brooklyn Bridge is opened
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| 28th October 1886 | The Statue of Liberty was 'unveiled'
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| 1st January 1892 | Ellis Island Immegration centre opens
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| 3rd September 1892 | Keir Hardie Britains first socialist MP takes his seat
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| 6th August 1893 | The Corinth Canal opens
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| 18th September 1894 | The Blackpool Tower opens
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| 21st June 1895 | Kiel Canal opens
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| 26th August 1895 | The Niagara Falls Hydroelectric plant is opened
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| 14th May 1897 | Marconi makes the first wireless transmission
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| 1st September 1897 | The Boston Undergound opens
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| 19th July 1900 | Paris Metro opens
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| 10th August 1900 | American win the first ever Davis Cup
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| 10th December 1901 | The first Nobel prizes were awarded
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| 11th December 1901 | Marconi transmits the first transatlantic wireless message
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| 4th February 1902 | Charles Lindbergh born
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| 15th February 1902 | The Berlin Underground opens
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| 8th April 1902 | Texaco founded
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| 10th December 1902 | The Sawan Dam is completed
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| 19th July 1903 | The first Tour de France race
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| 10th December 1903 | Marie Curie becomes the first female winner of a Nobel prize
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| 17th December 1903 | The first aircraft flight by the Wright Brothers
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| 27th October 1904 | The New York Subway opens
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| 1st January 1905 | The Trans-Siberian railways opens
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| 22nd March 1906 | The first ever internation rugby match. England 35 - France 8
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| 7th July 1906 | The first ever hot air balloon race
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| 12th August 1908 | The first Model Ford built
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| 1st January 1909 | The first old age pension was issued in Britain
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| 6th April 1909 | Robert Peary becomes the first person to reach the North Pole
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| 25th July 1909 | Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to fly across the English channel
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| 31st July 1910 | Dr Crippen becomes the first person arrest as a result of wireless
The infamous wife murderer who tried to escape the country on the SS Laurentic with his mistress.
For more information see :http://www.met.police.uk/history/crippen.htm
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| 27th August 1910 | The first Talky film is demonstrated by Edison
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| 28th February 1912 | The first parachute jump from a plane
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| 10th October 1913 | The Panama Canal is opened
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| 7th November 1916 | The first female member of the US Congress elected
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| 28th December 1918 | British Women vote for the first time in a General Election
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| 13th January 1919 | The first Indian peer takes his seat in the House of Lords
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| 15th June 1919 | Alcock and Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight
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| 1st December 1919 | Nancy Astor becomes the first female MP
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| 7th October 1920 | The first women are admitted to Oxford to study for full degrees
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| 13th November 1920 | The first session of the League of Nations is convened
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| 18th February 1921 | The worlds first Helicopter flies
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| 17th March 1921 | The first birth control clinic is opened in Britain by Marie Stopes
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| 25th November 1923 | The first transatlantic wireless broadcast is mde
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| 6th June 1925 | Chrysler Motor Company founded
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| 13th May 1926 | The first flight of an airship over the North Pole
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| 6th August 1926 | Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel
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| 21st May 1927 | Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic
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| 30th June 1927 | The first Ryder Cup golf tournement is held - the US win
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| 14th April 1929 | The first Monaco Grand Priz is run
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| 16th May 1929 | The first Oscars, although not called that yet, are awarded
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| 7th June 1929 | Margaret Bondfield becomes Britains first female minster
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| 24th April 1930 | Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
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| 30th July 1930 | Uruguay win the first world cup
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| 18th March 1932 | Sydney Harbour bridge opens
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| 25th December 1932 | King George V makes the first ever Christmas day royal broadcast
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| 16th July 1945 | First atomic weapon exploded in New Mexico
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| 26th July 1945 | Winston Churchill loses the general election and gives Labour it's first majority
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| 3rd May 1951 | Festival of Britain opens
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| 30th September 1951 | Festival of Britain closes
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| 10th February 1952 | First India General Election
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| 2nd May 1952 | Maiden flight of the Comet the worlds first commercial airline
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| 7th July 1952 | London's Tram service closes
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| 6th May 1954 | Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile
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| 12th November 1954 | Ellis Island immigration centre closes after 62 years
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| 13th July 1955 | Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain
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| 17th October 1956 | Calder Hall the worlds first full size nuclear power plant opened
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| 15th May 1957 | Britain tests first H bomb at Christmas Island
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| 4th October 1957 | Sputnik 1 launched
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| 28th May 1959 | Two monkeys become the first living creature in space
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| 26th June 1959 | St Lawrence Seaway opened
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| 20th July 1960 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the worlds first female prime minister
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| 12th April 1961 | Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes the first man in space
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| 5th May 1961 | Alan Shepard becomes the first US Man in space
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| 4th December 1961 | The Pill becomes available in Britain
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| 20th February 1962 | John Glenn becomes the first American astornaut to orbit the earth
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| 2nd April 1962 | Panda Pedestrian crossings introduced into Britain
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| 16th June 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
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| 13th April 1964 | Sidney Poitier becomes the first black winner of an Oscar
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| 4th September 1964 | Forth road bridge opened
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| 2nd June 1966 | The first US Space ship lands on the Moon
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| 5th May 1967 | First British Satallite launched
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| 20th September 1967 | QE2 Launched
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| 3rd May 1968 | First British heart transplant
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| 16th September 1968 | First and Second class posts introduced into Britain
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| 24th December 1968 | Man orbits the moon for the first time aboard Apollo 8
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| 2nd March 1969 | Concorde's maiden flight
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| 7th March 1969 | Golda Meir becomes Israels first female prime minister
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| 11th June 1969 | The hovercraft is launched
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| 21st July 1969 | Neil Armstong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
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| 22nd January 1970 | The first Jumbo jet lands at Heathrow
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| 11th January 1973 | First Open University degrees awarded
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| 26th March 1973 | Women admitted to the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange
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| 26th September 1973 | Concorde makes first trans-atlantic flight
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| 8th October 1973 | Commercial radio starts in Britain
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| 11th February 1975 | Margeret Thatcher elected first leader of Tory party
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| 9th June 1975 | House of Commons broadcast on radio for first time
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| 5th July 1975 | Arthur Ashe becomes the first black winner at Wimbledon
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| 24th September 1975 | Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become first Britons to scale Mount Everest
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| 25th July 1978 | Louise Brown born
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| 25th July 1978 | Louise Brown the worlds first 'test tube baby' is born
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| 4th May 1979 | Margeret Thatcher becomes first female British Prime Minister
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| 28th March 1981 | First London Marathon
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| 5th February 1982 | Laker Airways goes bust
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| 29th May 1982 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Britain
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| 11th October 1982 | Mary Rose warship raised from the bottom of the sea
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| 6th December 1983 | First British heart transplant
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| 13th August 1985 | Worlds first Heart Lungs transplant
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| 8th November 1990 | Ireland elects Mary Robinson as its first female president
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| 18th May 1991 | Helen Sharman becomes the first Briton in space
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| 11th November 1991 | Church of England allows female priests to be ordained
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| 27th April 1992 | Betty Boothroyd becomes first female Speaker of the House
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| 29th April 1993 | Buckingham Palace opens to the public
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| 6th May 1994 | Channel Tunnel opened
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| 10th May 1994 | Nelson Mandela becomes first black president of South Africa
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| 9th June 1995 | Andrew Richards becomes the first man to be jailed for attempted male rape in Britain
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| 28th May 1998 | Pakistan test first nuclear weapon
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| 1st January 2000 | Kala Sosefina Mileniume Kauvaka born
Born in New Zealand, Kala was the first baby born in the new millenium. Of course if for those people who believe that the millenium starts in 2001 she wasn't but they are just party poopers.
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| 4th January 2000 | First British Women reach the South Pole
Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill become the first British Women to walk to the South Pole.
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| 17th May 2000 | The first Britons reach the North Pole
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| 28th April 2001 | Denis Tito the first space tourists takes off
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| 3rd August 2003 | Gene Robinson is appointed as the first openly gay bishop of the Anglecan church
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| 10th August 2003 | Britain records 100f temperature for the first time
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| 24th October 2003 | Final flight of Concorde
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