The 1910 tour to South Africa marked the official beginning of British and Irish rugby tours: the inaugural tour operating under all four unions.

Edinburgh has also hosted various national and international sports events including the World Student Games, the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games.

He showed that his success was not an accident, winning the 100 yard dash at the inaugural British Empire Games ( now known as the Commonwealth Games ) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and setting a World Record in 1930.

In the 1970s Tottenham won the League Cup on two occasions and was the inaugural winner of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first British club to win two different major European trophies.

Sir Alec Guinness presented him with a lifetime achievement honour at the inaugural British Comedy Awards in 1990, while he received another such honour at the BBC Centenary Programme in 1996.

The team raced in the inaugural 1968 British League Division Two as the Highwaymen before closing down.

The West Ham Hammers team were involved in the top flight leagues 1929 to 1939, 1946 to 1955 and 1964 to 1971, winning the inaugural British League in 1965.

In 1860 he was appointed by the British Crown to the inaugural Regius Chair of Logic and the Regius Chair of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, which was newly formed after the amalgamation of King's College, Aberdeen and Marischal College by the Scottish Universities Commission of 1858.

Barry attended the inaugural meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 3 December 1834 he became a fellow of the R. I. B. A.

Forty-two of these were absent from the inaugural meeting as they were imprisoned or on the run from the British.

Edge's Napier launch won the inaugural British International Harmsworth Trophy for speedboats at Cork Harbour in Ireland, driven by Dorothy Levitt.

The 1st Extreme Ironing World Championships was the inaugural championship for the quirky British sport of extreme ironing.

Company Flow reunited for a show on October 19, 2007 in Brooklyn, New York City as well as a show on July 16, 2011, and supported Portishead at the inaugural British ' I'll Be Your Mirror ' festival in July 23, 2011.

The group continued to move leftwards and hosted the inaugural meeting of the Communist Party ( British Section of the Third International ).

He was also a supporter of scientific development, presiding over the inaugural session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1884.

On 17 June 1944, Qantas made its inaugural flight to Ceylon via Exmouth using a modified Liberator bomber, arriving in Perth on 3 June 1944 having been released to the airline by the British Government.

Three months later, British runner Len Hurst won the inaugural Paris to Conflans Marathon ( also around 40 km ) in a time of 2: 31: 30.

By contrast W. Fallows reported to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1863 that, for the inaugural run, a locomotive pulling 33 waggons ( five laden with coal, one of flour, one of " surveyors, engineers, & c .", six with " strangers ", fourteen with " workmen and others " and last of all, another six of coals ) passed from one end of the line to the other.

The sixth book in the series, Pigeon Post, won the inaugural Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association in June 1937, recognising the best 1936 children's book by a British subject.

The British Glass Biennale was set up to be a part of the inaugural International Festival of Glass in 2004.

In 1884, Ireland competed in the inaugural British Home Championship and lost all three games.

In 1996, the first tier of British rugby league clubs played the inaugural Super League season and changed from a winter to a summer season.

It is named after Arthur Ashe, the African American tennis player who won the men's final of the inaugural US Open in 1968.

She won the inaugural U. S. Women's Open in 1946.

A perennial U. S. Open contender ( with seven top-10 finishes and second place in 1927 and 1936 ), Cooper was nicknamed " Lighthorse Harry " by Damon Runyon for his quick pace of play in winning the inaugural Los Angeles Open in 1926. Cooper played in the inaugural Masters Tournament and placed second there in 1936 and 1938.

In 1968, Ashe won the United States Amateur Championships against Davis Cup Teammate Bob Lutz, and the inaugural US Open and aided the U. S Davis Cup team to victory.

Titled the Right Guard Open, the inaugural event was held at Pepsi Center from July 6 – 10.

In 1998 USQ was voted the ' World ’ s Best Dual Mode University ' by the International Council for Open and Distance Education ( ICDE ) while Professor Jim Taylor, the then Director of the Distance Education Centre won the inaugural ICDE prize for individual excellence for his contribution to global distance learning.

Following Wimbledon, Petrova won the inaugural 2011 Citi Open, beating Shahar Pe ' er for her first title since 2008.

At the inaugural 2011 Brussels Ladies Open, after a first round bye, she defeated qualifier Galina Voskoboeva, after dropping the first set in the second round.

The following year he reached the semi-finals in singles at both Wimbledon and the inaugural U. S. Open.

That year the inaugural competition, the AMD Open Architecture Challenge, sought ideas to develop innovative off the grid technology centers.

In 2005 Raymer also entered the inaugural British Poker Open which was filmed in London and was the UK's biggest live poker event in history.

On 18 May and 19 May 2007, Green co-hosted Challenge TV's coverage of the inaugural PDC US Open tournament.

While helping the Fire to win both the MLS Cup and the U. S. Open Cup in their inaugural year, Kubík was named the MLS Defender of the Year for his role in marshalling the Chicago defence ; he started 31 games for the Fire, and scored 7 goals and 8 assists, tremendous numbers for a defender.

Coles was the winner of the inaugural Senior British Open Championship.

In 1986 the Hospital formalised their outreach work in third world countries amongst disadvantaged sick men, women and children by launching the HealthCare Outreach ( HCO ) Program with the Operation Open Heart inaugural trip to Tonga.

At the inaugural Tall City Open in 1964, Wright shot a 62 in the third and final round.

The Freedom won the Northeast Division title and advancing to the PDL national semifinals in their inaugural season, and qualified for the US Open Cup, where they upset the Cape Cod Crusaders of the USL D3 Pro League in the first round and nearly eliminated the A-League ’ s Rochester Raging Rhinos, eventually falling 2-1 in extra time to the eventual champions.

The corps won both the U. S. Open in Marion, Ohio and the CYO Nationals in Boston before arriving in Whitewater, Wisconsin for the inaugural DCI World Championships.

Besides the inaugural LPGA major title, in 1956 she won the Women's Western Open and in 1958 the Titleholders Championship.

She then went on to the inaugural Texas Tennis Open.

On December 7, 2007, Allen Cunningham won the 15, 000 buy-in inaugural National Poker League Vegas Open Championship Main Event after defeating David Singer during heads-up play, winning over $ 325, 000 .< ref >