The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

Claudius was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honour of the city's anniversary, in 48 AD, 800 years after the founding of the city.

Ultimately, two of the league's western clubs went out of business during the first season and the Chicago Fire left that city's White Stockings impoverished, unable to field a team again until 1874.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

Fire protection was expanded in 1882, with the city's first 13 paid firefighters.

During the political opening after the military regime, the people elected the city's first woman mayor, Maria Luíza Fontenele, and had the first city hall commanded by a left-wing party.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony.

During these first few years Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing mainly at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.

After the firm's flotation in 1961, the landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel opened in Hong Kong in 1963 as the city's first five star hotel.

In August 2007, Jakarta held its first ever election to choose a governor, whereas previously the city's governors were appointed by the local house of representatives.

The city's major Projects include a Kabul cable car, connecting the city to Shirdarwaza mountain, a tunnel though mountains close to Kabul university to reduce traffic jams, building more flyovers in the city with the city's first fly-over being built with the help of Turkey ; in addition to providing more trucks and lorries for the municipality.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

The city's first suburbs were in the neighborhoods of Pendleton Heights and Quality Hill.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

Many of the city's finest buildings belong to this period and were built under the first three Bavarian kings.

One of the first actions of Macau's first governor, who arrived the following year, was to strengthen the city's defences, which included the construction of the Guia Fortress.

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

Among the city's first new acts to be identified with punk rock was DMZ.

The Crucified, Tutu and the Pirates and Silver Abuse were among the city's first punk bands.

In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).

Some of the most recent development is in the city's third ward, situated mostly along Peyton Street, south of Wilson Street into the Old Austin community and Arkansas Highway 38 ; a small detached portion of the ward is located to the northwest along the railroad line and Arkansas Highway 367.

Ward Central Elementary, the city's campus of the Cabot School District, is located in the larger portion of the third ward.

The City Council consists of three members elected at large from the city as a whole, and six members who each represent one of the city's six wards, all of whom are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections on a staggered basis, with the six ward seats up for election together and the three at-large and mayoral seats up for vote two years later.

The Tammany Hall ward boss or ward heeler – " wards " were the city's smallest political units from 1686 to 1938 – served as the local vote gatherer and provider of patronage.

In 1967 Askin abolished the City Council, installed a tribunal of administrators, and controversially redistributed the city's boundaries, leading to much of the former ward of Newtown being reallocated to the neighbouring municipalities of South Sydney and Marrickville, moving a significant portion of the Labor-voting population out of the Sydney City Council electoral area.

In 1904 Seidel was one of nine Socialists to win electoral victory as Milwaukee city aldermen, elected in the city's 20th ward.

He was elected to Hamilton, Ontario City Council the following year for the city's fourth ward, and re-elected in 1988.

This area included what became Greenfield and neighboring Hazelwood, which today are both part of the city's 15th ward.

He represented the city's first ward, located in south Winnipeg.

He was elected to the Brandon City Council in 1995, defeating an incumbent councillor in the city's seventh ward.

Shinsaibashi ( 心斎橋 ) is a district in the Chūō-ku ward of Osaka, Japan and the city's main shopping area.

He was elected to the Winnipeg council for St. Norbert ward ( at the city's southern tip ) in 1977, and reached the office of Deputy Mayor in 1986.

St Magnus is also the ward church for the Ward of Bridge and Bridge Without, which elects one of the city's aldermen.

Beavis became an alderman in 1961 in the city's ward 1 ( Ward 8 1974-1985, Metro Ward 8 1985-1988 ) for Riverdale, Toronto.

Longfield was first elected to the Whitby municipal council in 1991, winning a close victory in the city's second ward.

Moscoe was first elected to the North York city council in 1978, defeating incumbent councillor Murray Markin in the city's fourth ward.

He is now a Toronto City Councillor for the city's eighth ward, in the eastern section of York West.

He first campaigned for the North York city council in a November 1984 by-election for the city's first ward.

Perruzza campaigned for a seat on the Metro Toronto Separate School Board ( i. e., the Toronto Catholic School Board ) in the 1985 municipal election, and narrowly defeated incumbent trustee Tony Nigro to win the city's fifteenth ward.

Perruzza was elected without difficulty in the city's fifth ward, and became the only New Democrat on the new council.

Courtemanche was re-elected in the 2000 municipal election, winning a seat in the new city's sixth ward.

Olito was also a candidate in the 1988 North York municipal election, finishing fifth against Anthony Perruzza in the city's fifth ward.