* 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.

" Commercial success was first achieved with My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1985 ).

He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich ( from 1962 to 1965 ) and made his first paintings as a means of art therapy.

Commercial use of hydrofoils in the U. S. first appeared in 1961 when two commuter vessels were commissioned by Harry Gale Nye, Jr .' s North American Hydrofoils to service the route from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to the financial district of Lower Manhattan.

Commercial AR-15s were first issued to Special Forces troops in spring of 1964.

In December, he founded New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva ( later known as the Commercial Advertiser ), and edited it for four years, writing the equivalent of 20 volumes of articles and editorials.

It was originally called " Red Hat Commercial Linux " It was the first Linux distribution to use the RPM Package Manager as its packaging format, and over time has served as the starting point for several other distributions, such as Mandriva Linux and Yellow Dog Linux.

The first Internet exchange point was the Commercial Internet Exchange ( CIX ), formed by Alternet / UUNET ( now Verizon Business ), PSI, and CERFNET to exchange traffic without regard for whether the traffic complied with the acceptable use policy ( AUP ) of the NSFNet or ANS ' interconnection policy .< REF > Cybertelecom :: Internet History 1990s :: CIX </ REF > The CIX infrastructure consisted of a single router, managed by PSI, and was initially located in Santa Clara, California.

Commercial bungee jumping began with the New Zealander, A J Hackett, who made his first jump from Auckland's Greenhithe Bridge in 1986.

Sewell Avery, another businessman, had supported the museum within the Commercial Club and was selected as its first president of the board of directors.

The first known hospital-based ambulance service operated out of Commercial Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio ( now the Cincinnati General ) by 1865.

By August the vessel was able to be tested on its intended route, from Surrey Commercial Docks, London to Gravesend and at first made 8 miles per hour ( mph ).

" Susan Glaspell describes what was probably the first ever reading of Bound East for Cardiff which took place in the living room of Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook's home on Commercial Street, adjacent to the wharf ( pictured ) that was used by the Players for their theater.

After graduation, Mao Dun soon got his first job in the English editing and translation sections of the Commercial Press ( 商務印書館 ), Shanghai branch.

The Royal Commercial Travellers Schools were founded in 1845 by John Robert Cuffley, first in Wanstead, moving to Pinner in 1855.

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

She was a co-founder of the World Childhood Foundation in 1999, having been inspired by her work as Patron of the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in Stockholm.

The disaster was first reported by the Cincinnati Commercial.

This bank was first housed in the Page-Hansen Store then the Commercial Building.

In his best-known book, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages ( 1971, with numerous reprints ), Lopez argued that the key contribution of the medieval period to European history was the creation of a commercial economy, centered at first in the Italo-Byzantine eastern Mediterranean, but eventually extending to the Italian city-states and over the rest of Europe.

In 1741 there followed the first volume of the General Treasure Chamber, a four volume commercial lexicon translated by Ludovici from the Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce ( General Commercial Dictionary ) by Jacques Savary des Brûlons.

The GPO was at first located in a small building on the site of where the Commercial Buildings used to be ( now the Central Bank building ) off Dame Street, and was afterwards removed to a larger house opposite the Bank of Ireland building on College Green.

The Uniform Commercial Code ( UCC or the Code ), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been promulgated in conjunction with efforts to harmonize the law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states within the United States of America.

By 1975, Nordstrom expanded into Alaska ( the only time by acquisition ) by purchasing Northern Commercial Company and opened its first Nordstrom Rack clearance store in Seattle.

Commercial sale of genetically modified foods began in 1994, when Calgene first marketed its Flavr Savr delayed ripening tomato ..

image: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA.

File: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Schmitt poses by the American flag, with Earth in the background, during Apollo 17's first EVA.

* 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

* 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

* Christer Fuglesang, Astronaut, first Swedish citizen in space

The STS-118 mission, the first for Endeavour following a lengthy refit, included astronaut Barbara Morgan, formerly assigned to the Educator Astronaut program, but now a full member of the Astronaut Corps, as part of the crew.

* March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle ( the Soyuz TM-21 ), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

* June 3 – Gemini 4: Astronaut Edward Higgins White makes the first U. S. space walk.

He was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice.

Yet Glenn resigned from the NASA Astronaut Corps on January 30, 1964, well before even the first Gemini crew was assigned.

* Astronaut Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger Currently, she is assigned to the crew of STS-131, her first expedition.

* Mark Kelly ( born 1964 ), astronaut who first went into space as the pilot for STS-108 Endeavour ( December 5 – 17, 2001 ), and returned to space with STS-121 in 2006 as the pilot ; His twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also in the Astronaut Corps.

NASA Astronaut Group 8 yielded the first recruits composed of women and ethnic minorities — three were African American ( Guion Bluford, Ronald McNair, and Dr. Frederick D. Gregory ).

Chawla joined the NASA ' Astronaut Corps ' in March 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996.

He is also the first member of the European Space Agency Astronaut Corps to participate in a spaceflight mission.

It also contained what is possibly the first instance in the English language of the word " Astronaut ".

He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first in 1981 ; and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974 – 1987.

Joining NASA in 1962, Young was the first of the Astronaut Group 2 to fly in space.

Philip Kenyon Chapman ( born 5 March 1935 ) was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 ( 1967 ).

At the age of eleven, Wilde was signed by record producer Jonathan King to King's UK record label, and released his first single in November, 1972, called " I Am An Astronaut ".

As a result, during the next two years The Company would also proceed to open the world ’ s first private Astronaut training facility, continue vehicle development, and test propulsion and recovery systems.

He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two ( Bassett and Freeman ) having been killed in separate T-38 flights and ( Chaffee ) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year.

Astronaut Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space when she and David C. Leestma performed a 3-hour EVA on 11 October 1984, demonstrating the Orbital Refueling System ( ORS ) and proving the feasibility of refueling satellites in orbit.

On June 28, 2012, Lu, with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schewickart and Dr. G. Scott Hubbard, Astrophysicist and Author from Stanford University launched the B612 Foundation to build and operate the first privately funded deep space mission called SENTINEL.