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 ).

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

A small German minority remains in the city, although the city's last German school was closed in 1963.

The city's colleges ( apart from the University of Regensburg ) include an episcopal clerical seminary, and a school of church music.

Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down ; they had been run down to the point of being known as the " Warren Avenue slum ".

All the city's secondary school premises have been redeveloped as a result of a Public-private partnership scheme.

The western half is served by Arthur E. Wright Middle School on Las Virgenes Road, which prior to 2004, was the city's only middle school.

Statistics show that 18, 208 students were enrolled in the city's secondary school system during the 1993-94 school year, while a further 7, 660 attended one of the 18 professional schools.

Orange Beach Elementary School is the city's only school and serves students in grades kindergarten through sixth grade.

The city's sole public school is the E. T. Belsaw / Mt.

In August 2011, two of the city's schools ( Iola Roberts Elementary and Pell City High School ) started school after undergoing renovations and / or expansions to their campuses.

Clarksville Schools is the city's public school district.

The building continued to be used as the city's high school until a new building was built in 1929.

Perris High School of the Perris district is the city's first public ( grades 9-12 ) school.

Other than the street and middle school named after De Anza, the only other artifact representing this expedition of De Anza and the Cahullia Tribe is a structure ( still standing at 1007 East Main Street in the city's current Quiet Home Acquisition Project Area ) and is not currently recognized for its significance.

86. 6 % of the city's 36, 000 have a high school Diploma, 22. 4 % bachelor's degree or higher, 7. 1 % graduate degree.

The mascot for the city's high school is " Boomer ", a russet-burbank potato that wears a crown, robe and scepter.

Each year, during the Riley Festival in October, the city's school children parade to the statue to place flowers around it.

Michigan City Area Schools, the city's public school system, includes one high school ( Michigan City High School ), three middle schools, and nine elementary schools.

The city's first school was opened in 1907 in the upstairs of the Wheat Grocery Store at 423 Main Street.

The first school in Prairie City was built on 1868 ( The Plainsmen ) ; the city's district remained independent until a merger with that of Monroe in 1990, brought about by the destruction by fire of Monroe's high school.

In 1882, the Richland school house was moved to the present Meadowlark Elementary School location at a cost of 2, 000 dollars, and became the city's first school.