These tiny fragments turned up in a collection of Dead Sea Scrolls possessed by the Jordanian Government, and were first published by Milik in 1956.

For the first time, the Israeli public became exposed to tens of foreign channels from other countries around the world ( which overtook the place of the Jordanian and Lebanese channels which were the only foreign channels received in Israel until then ), and to new local channels on the cables: The children channel, The sports channel, The family channel, and the films channel.

In April 2007, Royal Jordanian became part of Oneworld, thus becoming the first Arab airline to join such a global alliance system.

This is the first order Royal Jordanian has placed with Boeing.

Royal Jordanian made its first flight to Budapest, on 28 July, using an Embraer 195.

This is the first special colour scheme Royal Jordanian will have used.

* August 7: Jordanian embassy is bombed, the first car bombing of the occupation.

Syrianair and Alia-the Royal Jordanian Airline were to join forces in launching the first transatlantic route ever operated by an Arab Middle Eastern airline.

His first wife was Gervette " Gigi ," a Jordanian woman of Circassian origin who is the mother of his child Timour.

For five months the bloc was besieged, first by Arab irregulars, and then by the Jordanian Arab Legion.

The Royal Jordanian Land Force used Centurion tanks, first in 1970 to fend off a Syrian incursion within its borders during the Black September events and later in the Golan Heights in 1973.

Two PFLP hijackers who were prevented from boarding the El Al flight instead hijacked Pan Am Flight 93, a Boeing 747, diverting the large plane first to Beirut and then to Cairo rather than the small Jordanian airstrip.

The Jordanian national football team's first international match was played in 1953 in Egypt where the team defeated Syria 3-1.

His first experiences with Jordanian football players took place as he was coaching top Jordan football club Al-Faisaly ( Amman ) from 2006-2008 and achieved great results with that team as well.

Hamad was able, for the first time in the history of Jordanian football, to help Jordan qualify for the final round of World Cup qualifications in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification ( AFC ) campaign.

After serving as the first Jordanian Ambassador to the State of Israel after the 1994 Peace Treaty, and also as Ambassador to the United States, he had been the foreign minister from January 2002 until October 2004, when he gained the post of deputy prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle which was designed to continue the process of reform and the shrinking of the bureaucracy.

He also served as a minister in the Jordanian government, governor of the West Bank, member of the Jordanian Senate, and the first military governor in Palestine.

Hi Jolly or Hadji Ali ( Arabic: حاج علي Ḥājj ‘ Alī ; ), later known as Philip Tedro ( born ‘ Ali al-Hajaya – December 16, 1902 ), was an Ottoman subject of Jordanian parentage, and in 1856 became one of the first camel drivers ever hired by the US Army to lead the camel driver experiment in the Southwest.

According to David Tal, the raid was the first of Israel's reprisal raids against a military target in Jordanian controlled territory.

* Dima and Lama Hattab, Jordanian twins who were the first female Middle Eastern participants in the race.

Ina ' am Qaddoura Al-Mufti () is the first Jordanian woman to hold a governmental position.

He was the first Jordanian to collect, write, sing, and compose Jordanian folkloric music.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube ( Crux / Southern Cross Sports Club ) is a first class football ( soccer ) club in Brazil.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

The Korea Republic national football team have also used the ground twice in recent years for international friendlies, first against Greece in February 2007 and then against Serbia in November 2009.

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

The first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9, 1861.

The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

The completion of the first ever American football season came as a result of only two total games being played.

A game which modern audiences would more readily recognize as American football occurred six years after the first ever game and occurred between Harvard University and Tufts University on June 4, 1875.

This first game was a lot like rugby but much closer to the modern day version of football than soccer.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.