( The first Metropolitan Opera broadcast on Dec. 9 will introduce her as Lucia.

* 1953 – The first U. S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

* 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.

* 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.

In 1989, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first of three series based on Morton's work.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

In 1978, America was introduced to competitive cheerleading by the first broadcast of Collegiate Cheerleading Championships on CBS.

ESPN first broadcast the National High School Cheerleading Competition nationwide in 1983.

The first World Cheerleading Championships, or Cheerleading Worlds, were hosted by the USASF / IASF at the Walt Disney World Resort and taped for an ESPN global broadcast in 2004.

Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960.

Episode 5191, originally broadcast on 7 January 2002, was the first to be broadcast in 16: 9 widescreen format.

Car Talk was first broadcast on WBUR in Boston in 1977.

In 2001, Cowboy Bebop became the first anime title to be broadcast on Adult Swim in the United States.

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

In 2009, SkyCable became the first cable TV service provider in the Philippines to broadcast the UAAP Games in HDTV via the new SkyHD Cable TV service.

The world's first commercial broadcast automation audio compression system was developed by Oscar Bonello, an Engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

In 1983, using the psychoacoustic principle of the masking of critical bands first published in 1967, he started developing a practical application based on the recently developed IBM PC computer, and the broadcast automation system was launched in 1987 under the name Audicom.

The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I. J.

The Special was first broadcast by NBC on November 27, 1977.

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

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first audio radio broadcast in history also playing the first record, that of a contralto singing Handel's Largo from Xerxes.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

left In keeping with his democratic ideals, Mackenzie refused the offer of a knighthood three times, and was thus the only one of Canada's first eight Prime Ministers not to be knighted.

* 1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

* 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Although his father had him baptised to Anglicanism at age 12, he was nonetheless Britain's first and thus far only Jewish Prime Minister.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

It was first proposed by South African Prime Minister J.

He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.

He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term, and the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament.

Progressive conservatism first arose as a distinct ideology in the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's " One Nation " Toryism.

The first Prime Minister Sir Albert Henry led the county until 1978 when he was accused of vote-rigging.

After achieving autonomy in 1965, the Cook Islands elected Albert Henry of the Cook Islands Party as their first Prime Minister.

It was also, arguably, in the first steps of the Congo into independence, the underlying cause of the crisis between Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa Vubu, who ultimately dismissed each other, in 1960.

LeBlanc retired in 1974 and was replaced by Patrick John who became the islands ' first Prime Minister.

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

* 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, had her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen.

* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.

* 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

degree include Dr. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici ( former President of Malta ), the late Prof. Guido de Marco ( former President of the United Nations General Assembly and former President of Malta ), the late Dr. George Borg Olivier ( first post-independence Prime Minister of Malta ), and Dr. Lawrence Gonzi ( current Prime Minister of Malta ).