* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

* In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

* 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

In 1987, Andersson released his first solo album Klinga Mina Klockor (" Chime, My Bells ").

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

He landed his first solo exhibition in 1953 at the John Heller Gallery, who represented artists such as Roy Lichtenstein.

In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo ( no ropes or protection ) ascent of this formation.

He had his first solo show in 1948, and has shown regularly since then.

* 1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast ; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Parton's first solo single for RCA, " Just Because I'm a Woman ", was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate chart hit, reaching number seventeen.

He performed a " work in progress " version of Under Milk Wood, solo, for the first time at Harvard University on 3 May.

Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s.

1993 saw the release of Bowie's first solo offering since his Tin Machine departure, the soul, jazz and hip-hop influenced Black Tie White Noise.

Italian composer Sylvano Bussotti, whose composing career spans from the 1930s to the first decade of the 21st century, wrote a solo work for bass in 1983 entitled Naked Angel Face per contrabbasso.

The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony features a solo for the double bass that quotes the children's song Frere Jacques, transposed into a minor key.

His first solo effort was in 1960 with an hour-long special produced by Sylvia and sponsored by General Motors ; there were similar specials in 1961 and 1962.

Krupa is also known to be the first to record a drum solo on a commercial record.

In 2005, Gerald Casale announced his " solo " project, Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers ( the Evildoers themselves including the other members of Devo ), and released the first EP, Army Girls Gone Wild in 2006.

The music she produced was featured on her first solo album, Enya ( 1987 ), but it attracted little attention at the time.

The Channel F electronics were designed by Jerry Lawson using the Fairchild F8 CPU, the first public outing of this processor.

Diana Ross was one of the first Motown artists to embrace the disco sound with her hugely successful 1976 outing " Love Hangover " from her self-entitled album.

* 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.

A new, larger, trophy was bought by the FA in 1911 designed and manufactured by Fattorini's of Bradford and won by Bradford City in its first outing, the only time a team from Bradford has reached the final.

On his first outing he set out to Limehouse Causeway, spending his first night in a common lodging house, possibly George Levy's ' kip '.

Hurst played one first-class cricket match for Essex, against Lancashire at Aigburth in 1962, although it was not a successful outing: he made 0 not out in the first innings, and was bowled by Colin Hilton, again for 0, in the second.

Brand was the first to use " outing " as a political strategy, claiming that German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow engaged in homosexual activity.

The party's first electoral outing was when 7 candidates contested the November 1982 general election under the Ecology Party banner, winning 0. 2 % of the vote.

It is hard to pinpoint the first use of outing in the modern sense.

The Harden-Eulenburg affair of 1907 – 1909 was the first public outing scandal of the twentieth century.

The first outing by an activist in America occurred in February 1989.

He was attacked by the touring batsmen, taking 1 / 75 from 16. 5 overs in his first outing against an international outfit.

The only fairly successful Spaghetti Western with an Indian main character ( played by Burt Reynolds in his only European Western outing ) is Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe, where the Indian village is wiped out by bandits during the first minutes, and the avenger hero spends the rest of the film dealing mostly with Anglos and Mexicans until the final showdown at an Indian burial ground.

* December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.

In his first outing for the team, he outqualified their star driver Ayrton Senna.

The production is notable for several reasons ; besides starring Frank Morgan, the play's female lead was Helen Menken ( who would marry Humphrey Bogart in 1926 ), and in his first Broadway outing, character actor Robert Keith, father of actor Brian Keith and one-time husband of Theater Guild actress Peg Entwistle, who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood Sign in 1932.

In 1977, Columbu competed in the first World's Strongest Man competition and was in first place in total points during the competition ; a remarkable outing, considering that Franco weighed much less than all his competitors.

The DFV won on its first outing, at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix in the hands of Jim Clark, fitted to a Lotus 49, and from 1968 was available for purchase to any F1 team that wished it.

However, there are moments where Chico's characters appear to be genuinely Italian ; examples include the film The Big Store, in which his character Ravelli runs into an old friend he worked with in Naples ( after a brief misunderstanding due to his accent ), the film Monkey Business, in which Chico claims his grandfather sailed with Christopher Columbus, and their very first outing The Cocoanuts, where Mr. Hammer ( Groucho ) asks him if he knew what an auction was, in which he responds " I come from Italy on the Atlantic Auction!

In December, RCA released " Merry Xmas Everybody " for the first time since its initial outing.

From his first Looney Tunes outing, Sinkin ' in the Bathtub, Bosko would star in 39 musical films ( one of which was not released ).

He had his first professional outing in the sidecar of his father's Vincent, which they won.