** Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August.

** Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August.

** term " Christian " first used ( 11: 26 )

** Dusk first online Novel and Blog written under Artistic License 2. 0

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

** Folio 97 recto: The first stone, Jasper

** Museum Koenig where the Parlamentarischer Rat first met

** The reinforce band is only present if the cannon has two reinforces, and it divides the first reinforce from the second.

** Commodore PET, Commodores first full-featured computer, a home / personal computer first produced in 1977

** Cumberland Road, a historical road, also called the Great National Pike and the National Road, the first United States federal highway

** Soldiers ' ID card number and first letter of the powiat the soldier came from

** Surname, first name, middle initial

** Surname, first name, middle initial

** Surname, first name, middle initial

** The first day of Las Posadas ( Mexico, other Latin Americans )

** The first day of Simbang Gabi ( Philippines )

** Brownian dynamics, the occurrence of Langevin dynamics in the motion of particles in solution ( e. g. a grain in water, as was first seen by Brown ); its famous property is: MSD ~ t, where MSD is the mean squared displacement, and t is the time the process is seen

** Import substitution and nationalization, 1952 – 1966, during which the first program of industrialization in 1957 was established and led by the public sector in heavy industries such as iron and steel and chemical industries.

** Kumulipo by Keaulumoku ( 1700 ) an Ancient Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in ( 1889 )

** ( 1961 ), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

** " Rule 7: Substance first — then form.

** Adeline in The Romance of the Forest-“ Her wicked Marquis, having secretly immured Number One ( his first wife ), has now a new and beautiful wife, whose character, alas!

** JavaScript ( first named Mocha, then LiveScript )

** The first night of Ivan Kupala Day ( Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine )

** Structural mapping: the locations of the major rock units and the faults and folds that led to their placement there.

** for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.

** for his profound contributions to two major areas of operations research and management science: stochastic networks and mathematical finance.

** International telephone system: landline connections to Latvia and Poland ; major international connections are to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite

** Panzer General, SSI ( 1994 ), video game ; strategic simulation game: Sea Lion ' 40 and Sea Lion Plus ( the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance ) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion ' 43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.

** Engine configuration for a discussion of the layout of the major components of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine.

** Some 400 – 1, 000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.

** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

** Conrail ( Consolidated Rails Corporation ) is formed by the U. S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection.

** Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

** A major heat wave strikes North America ; high temperature records are set and thousands die.

** A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface.

** The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers ; It would last for 114 days.

** Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.

** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.

** Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.

** Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120, 000 to 400, 000.

** A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

** A major earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.