After losing a dismal 103 games in 1966, the Cubs brought home consecutive winning records in ' 67 and ' 68, marking the first time a Cub team had accomplished that feat in over two decades.

During the first half of the 20th century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups each for boys ( Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Rover Scout ) and, in 1910, a new organization, Girl Guides, was created for girls ( Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide ).

In Rochester alone, there are more than 2, 000 Scouts, including 26 Cub Scout packs ( grades first through fifth ) and more than 20 Boy Scout troops ( sixth grade through age 18 ).

The BSA's " inter-racial council " program ended in 1954 ; Louisville accepted their first black Boy Scout Troops in 1959 ; and their first black Cub Scout Packs in 1963.

Piper's J-3 Cub, a single-engine, high-wing, two-seater, was the first inexpensive training aircraft produced in large numbers.

At first, Garciaparra was assigned jersey number 8, because Cub catcher Michael Barrett wore number 5.

His final " click " was performed on September 2, the last Cub home victory while still in first place.

After Prior's stint on the disabled list came to an end, he compiled a 10 – 1 record, and pitched against former Cub Greg Maddux in the first round of the playoffs.

In the decisive Game 7, Wood hit the first home run by a pitcher in a NLCS game since another Cub, Rick Sutcliffe, did so in Game 1 in 1984.

He nearly became only the third player to collect 20 doubles, triples, home runs, and stolen bases in the same season, led the Cubs to the National League's Eastern Division title ( their first championship of any kind since 1945 ), and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award, the first by a Cub since Ernie Banks ' back-to-back honors in and.

Banks wore number 14 as a Cub, and is the first of only six Cubs players who have had their number retired by the organization.

When Lone Wolf and Cub was first released in Japan in 1970, it became wildly popular ( some 8 million copies were sold in Japan ) for its powerful, epic samurai story and its stark and gruesome depiction of violence during Tokugawa era Japan.

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, who was blamed for Boston's 1986 World Series loss after a routine ground ball rolled through his legs, was also a former Cub.

* February 27 – Off Iwo Jima, the U. S. Navy tank landing ship, specially equipped with booms and cables for launching light aircraft, achieves the first successful launch of a Piper OY-1 Cub observation plane.

In both works, he is first seen as a Lion Cub ( lion with human attributes ) who has been torn from his mother and used as an experiment ( in the book by Doctor Dillamond's replacement, Doctor Nikidik, and in the musical an agent of the Wizard ) on the nature of Animals.

The first Cub Scout Pack was formed around 2000 as Pack 551.

Cub Scouting is part of the Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ), available to boys from first through fifth-grade, or 7 to 11½ years of age and their families.

The BSA finally began some experimental Cub units in 1928 and in 1930 the BSA began registering the first Cub Scout packs, and the Boy Rangers were absorbed.

Cub Scouts who join a pack are assigned to dens with six to eight members, usually based on age: Tiger Cubs ( first grade ), Wolf Cub Scouts ( second grade ), Bear Cub Scouts ( third grade ) and Webelos Scouts ( fourth and fifth grades ).

* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England, United Kingdom.

* 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

After initial development, Robinson turned the movement over to James E. West who became the first Chief Scout Executive and the Scouting movement began to expand in the U. S. As BSA grew, it absorbed other Scouting organizations.

His first drawings were published in 1922 in Jamais assez, the school's Scout paper, and in Le Boy-Scout Belge, the Scout monthly magazine.

* 1908 – The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.

Many of these were first published in serial form under other titles, e. g., Farmer in the Sky was published as Satellite Scout in the Boy Scout magazine Boys ' Life.

Stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the Brownsea Island Scout camp | first Scout camp

The book is now the fourth-bestselling title of all time, and is now commonly considered the first version of the Boy Scout Handbook.

Canada became the first overseas dominion with a sanctioned Boy Scout program, followed by Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

The first Scout rally, held in 1909 at The Crystal Palace in London, attracted 10, 000 boys and a number of girls.

* March 27 – The first overseas Scout Troop is formed in Gibraltar.

* August 1 – August 9 – Robert Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.

As part of that position, he painted several covers, beginning with his first published magazine cover, Scout at Ship's Wheel, appearing on the Boys ' Life September 1913 edition.

* Scout at Ship's Wheel ( first published magazine cover illustration, Boys ' Life, September 1913 )

The earliest examples of longer-wheelbase wagon-type SUVs were the Chevrolet Carryall Suburban ( 1935, RWD only ), GAZ-61 ( 1938, 4x4 ), Willys Jeep Wagon ( 1948 ), Pobeda M-72 ( GAZ-M20 / 1955 ), which Russian references credit as possibly being the first modern SUV ( with unitary body rather than body-on-frame ), International Harvester Travelall ( 1953 ), Land Rover Series II 109 ( 1958 ), and the International Harvester Scout 80 ( 1961 ).

Parnall's first aircraft, designed by A. Camden Pratt was called the Scout, a large single-seater, two-bay biplane powered by a 230 hp Sunbeam Maori, with an upward-firing gun mounted on the upper wing.

Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.

* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

The first Land Rover prototype, later nicknamed ' Centre Steer ', was built on a Jeep chassis and axles.

During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again associated with Jaguar-the first time the two companies had been under the same umbrella since the British Leyland era.

* 1948: The first Land Rover was officially launched 30 April 1948, at the Amsterdam Motor Show

In 1563 he became the first mate of the frigate HMS " Falcon Rover ".

* John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.

The first series that Stratemeyer created was the Rover Boys, published under the pseudonym Arthur M. Winfield.

The objective of the consortium, which includes luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover and leading electrical machine company SR Drives, is to produce the world ’ s first commercially viable-and environmentally friendly-gas turbine generator designed specifically for automotive applications.

Bell and Chief Engineer Maurice Wilks from British car manufacturers Rover unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.

The first race car fitted with a turbine for the goal of actual racing was by Rover and the BRM Formula One team joined forces to produce the Rover-BRM, a gas turbine powered coupe, which entered the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther.

Their expertise in 4WD attracted Mercedes-Benz and they built the first G Wagens ( Geländewagen ) that were intended as an alternative to the military specification Land Rover.

The Niva ( 2121 ) was described by its designers as a “ Renault 5 put on a Land Rover chassis .” It was Lada's ( VAZ / AvtoVAZ ) first non-Fiat based model.

It was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission, and held the record for the longest Mars surface mission of 6 years and 116 days ( from landing until surface mission termination, Earth time ) until that record was broken by the Opportunity Rover on May 19, 2010.

the Jaguar XK120 achieved an officially timed ; the " Jabbeke Speed Record " Triumph TR2 car was driven by Ken Richardson ; André Pilette set a Belgian record in the 2 litre class in the Veritas RS ; in 1952 the Rover JET 1 turbine driven by Spen King set the first speed record for gas turbine cars at over the flying kilometre ; and the exotic Pegaso Z-102 clocked to make it the ' fastest production car in the world '.

This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, author of many comedies including The Rover ( 1677 ).

The designation was first applied to a low-roof model of the Rover P5 from 1962 until 1973, but was revived by the 1992 Infiniti J30 and finally by the first model 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLS, which stands in Mercedes hierarchy between the E and S class, and has appearance of a classic coupe and sedan.

* The opening piano piece in the first movement is featured in a 2008 Range Rover commercial.

Although Mercury was not the first nameplate to introduce a SUV ( following the Range Rover and the Oldsmobile Bravada ), the 1997 Mercury Mountaineer was among one of the first to popularize luxury SUVs.