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.

* 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 ).

In ever greater numbers, factories are locating in the suburbs or in `` industrial parks '' removed from the city's political jurisdiction.

More than half of the workers in Aarau live in the city's suburbs, or farther away in the surrounding area.

A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s.

The impressive Gründerzeit suburbs north of the city, called the Nordfront, were destroyed as well as the city's main street with its Baroque buildings.

Between 1860 – 1862, the Taiping rebels twice attacked Shanghai and destroyed the city's eastern and southern suburbs, but failed to take the city.

The municipality's jurisdiction is limited to a region of 786 hectares in area and 5 meters in elevation, while each of the city's suburbs is administrated by its own independent municipal council.

In large cities such as London, suburbs include formerly separate towns and villages that have been gradually absorbed during a city's growth and expansion.

Low rents in the city's periphery, during the two decades after the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ), provoked continuous diversions of city housing capital for the development of suburbs and rural areas.

The city's most extensive exposure can be accredited to Omaha native Alexander Payne, the Oscar-nominated director who shot parts of About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth and Election in the city and suburbs of Papillion and LaVista.

The Adzhimushkay catacombs ( mines ) in the city's suburbs were the site of guerrilla warfare against the occupation.

Many of the city's more affluent residents, both black and white, left the city after the war, moving to neighboring Alameda, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito to the north ; to San Leandro, Hayward, Castro Valley and Fremont in Southern Alameda County ; and to the newly developing East Bay suburbs, Orinda, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord.

Among the numerous communes that make up Grenoble are the city's largest suburbs, Saint-Martin-d ' Hères, Échirolles, and Fontaine, each with a population exceeding 20, 000.

The city of Odessa hosts two important ports: Odessa itself and Yuzhne ( also an internationally important oil terminal ), situated in the city's suburbs.

Clay County is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and consists of many of the city's northern suburbs.

Hezekiah then surrounded the new reservoir and the city's burgeoning western suburbs with a new city wall.

These projects helped the city's economy to diversify, but did not prevent the exodus of many of the city's residents to independent suburbs.

About two-thirds of the county's population lives in the city's suburbs.

Platte County is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and contains some of the city's western suburbs.

Jefferson County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area and consists of many of the city's southern suburbs.

One of the city's first suburbs, the neighborhood is centered on the St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church.

Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to over one million during the workweek.

It contains many of the suburbs of Glasgow as well as many of the city's commuter towns and villages.

Alexander's early life alternated between the Royal Palace in Athens, and the Tatoï Palace in the city's suburbs.