The first suppers were held in Ayrshire at the end of the 18th century by Robert Burns ' friends on the anniversary of his death, 21 July, In Memoriam and they have been a regular occurrence ever since.

They held the first Burns supper on what they thought was his birthday on 29 January 1802, but in 1803 discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January 1759, and since then suppers have been held on 25 January, Burns ' birthday.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

Bradbury's first pay as a writer was at the age of fourteen, when Burns hired him to write for the Burns and Allen show.

** Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.

* August 15 – Beverly Lynn Burns, American pilot, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747

* Robert Burns ' version of the Scots poem Auld Lang Syne is first published, in this year's volume of The Scots Musical Museum.

The potency of these tales can be gauged from the following statement by the poet Robert Burns, writing some three centuries after they were first related.

This was Johnson's first bout since winning the heavyweight title from Tommy Burns.

Originally opened in 1953, the founders and owners of the chain, Kieth J. Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns, opened their first stores around a piece of equipment known as the Insta-Broiler.

Beverly Lynn Burns, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747 airliner.

Continuing the Terrible Certainty formula while showing the band still progressing musically and with better production by the well-regarded Randy Burns ( also Megadeth among others ), the album featured the band's first major singles and music videos, the title track and " Betrayer ", becoming major hits on MTVs Headbangers Ball.

Glaukos president and CEO Thomas Burns says Glaukos is the first to develop Glaucoma micro-stents and is well ahead of its competitors.

Burns was also the first heavyweight champion to give a Jewish boxer a shot at the crown.

In December 1908, Burns became the first fighter to agree to a heavyweight championship bout with an African American boxer, Jack Johnson, to whom he lost his title in a match held in Sydney.

John Burns founded a branch of the Social Democratic Federation, Britain's first organised socialist political party, in the borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed London County Council.

Burns supervised ship construction, McIver was responsible for day to day operations, and Cunard was the " first among equals ' in the management structure.

Under Cunard's new chairman, John Burns ( 1839 – 1900 ), son of one of the firm's original founders, Cunard commissioned four steel-hulled express liners beginning with Servia of 1881, the first passenger liner with electric lighting throughout.

Louis-Dreyfus at the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, May 2010In 2007, Louis-Dreyfus reprised her role as Gloria on The Simpsons, which she had first originated in the 2001 episode " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", in the episode " I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ".

John Burns ( written out of the show after the first season ) was working his way through college.

In 1956, the Soviet Union became the first country in the world to honour Burns with a commemorative stamp.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

I hope the man who plans to sit on his hands until the emergency comes will have a change of heart, will get busy and be the first member of our `` plus-one '' shelter club.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Dunn seemed quite positive about being traded to a ball club in first place in its division in August.

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.

Under the management of Luigi Barbesino, the Roman club came close to their first title in 1935 – 36 ; finishing just one point behind champions Bologna.

The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.

This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

Bursaspor have won the league title in 2009-010 for the first time, becoming the 2nd anatolian club to ever wint the league title after Trabzonspor.

The first professional black baseball club, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1885.

The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

The club won its first AFL Premiership by defeating Essendon 15. 18 ( 108 ) to 12. 10 ( 82 ) in the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

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

Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716 ; it is still in existence today.

The first curling club in the United States was established in 1830, and the game was introduced to Switzerland and Sweden before the end of the 19th century, also by Scots.

The first curling club in the United States was organized in 1830 only 30 miles from Detroit, at Orchard Lake, Michigan.