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 ).

During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.

In response to an appeal by the City of Toledo, the Census Bureau's July 2007 estimate was revised to 316, 851, slightly more than in 2000, which would have been the city's first population gain in 40 years.

The bombardment and the response from the city's artillery entrenched next to the bridge and around the Cow Tower lasted through the night.

In response to a growing population base, Twin Falls County voters voted to construct a new hospital in the northwest section of Twin Falls to replace the city's existing hospital.

The population grew to over 2, 000 by 1980, and in response in 1984 the North Liberty Community Library was founded and Penn Meadows Park, the city's largest, was opened.

Even the opening scene, which features a large sign saying " Welcome to Clairton, City of Prayer ," was shot in Mingo Junction, Ohio, although its verbiage is based on smaller signs posted at the city's boundaries during the mid 1960s ( as a response to the Supreme Court's 1963 ban on sponsored school prayer ).

Despite his overall pro-lesbian and pro-gay-rights stance, he nonetheless backed up the New York City Health Department's decision to shut down the city's gay bathhouses in 1985 in response to concerns over the spread of AIDS.

In response to the Theban army outside the city's walls, the Phocian general Onomarchus brought out all the inhabitants of the city ( including the elderly, women, and children ) and locked the gates.

Controversy over the city's response to the protests resulted in the resignation of the police chief of Seattle, Norm Stamper, and arguably played a role in Schell's loss to Greg Nickels in the 2001 mayoral primary election.

During the 1913 Paterson silk strike, IWW leader “ Big ” Bill Haywood asserted that someday all of the world's flags would be red, “ the color of the working man's blood .” In response, the city's leaders ( who opposed the strike ) declared March 17 to be “ Flag Day ,” and saw to it that each of the city's textile mills flew an American flag.

Three richly dressed Austrian prisoners were dispatched as emissaries by the Sultan to negotiate the city's surrender ; Salm sent three richly dressed Muslims back without a response.

Cyril, the patriarch of Alexandria, convinced the city's governor to expel the Jews from the city in 415 with the aid of the mob, in response to the Jews ' alleged nighttime massacre of many Christians.

New York City politicians often exert influence outside the city in response to the city's diverse ethnic constituencies.

Rona Ambrose, the Federal Minister of Labour ordered a union membership vote on January 8, 2009 on the city's contract proposal in response to a request from mayor Larry O ' Brien.

Residents of Brockton, Massachusetts launched a chapter in March 2008 in response to a rise in street violence, and they were quickly able to build a working relationship with the city's police chief.

The city's slow response to the debilitating storm was blamed on Bilandic's inaction.

Controversy over the city's lack of preparation and response to the protests resulted in the departure of Seattle police chief Norm Stamper from his position, in what Stamper said was a previously planned retirement.

In the 1980s, some Staten Island residents proposed building a large homeless shelter on Hoffman Island or Swinburne Island or both, in response to the city's plans to open new shelters in some of the borough's residential neighborhoods.

The second took place on 1 April 1855, at the hands of troops loyal to Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna during the Revolution of Ayutla, in response to the city's expressed support for Gen. Juan Álvarez.

By then Aspen, too, had begun to fall on hard times due to Congress repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in response to the Panic of 1893, which took the largest buyer of the city's silver out of the market.

In response, the city government established a City-Wide Congress to develop a master plan for the city's recovery and future growth and development.

In 1985, New York City Mayor Ed Koch backed the New York City Health Department's decision to shut down the city's gay bathhouses, in response to concerns over the spread of HIV / AIDS.

The area is made up of row houses constructed rapidly by speculative builders and real estate developers in response to the city's high demand for housing following the Civil War and the growth of the federal government in the late 19th century.