* 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

* 1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called " Britain's Roswell ".

Additionally Britain's use of radar and the advantages of fighting above Britain's home territory allowed the RAF to deny Germany air superiority, saving the British Isles from German invasion and dealing the Axis their first major defeat of the Second World War.

Attacks on Scapa Flow and Rosyth gave RAF fighters their first successes downing bombers in the Firth of Forth and East Lothian.

* Avro Lincoln, an RAF bomber that first flew in 1943

It was not until the concluding months of 1943 that the only realized attempt to build a " true four engined " version of the A-series He 177, the He 177B emerged with only three airworthy prototypes produced by early 1944, some three years after the first flights of the Avro Lancaster prototypes, the most commonly encountered RAF bomber pounding Germany on strategic night raids from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe.

In World War II, he volunteered for all services when the war broke out ( the RAF was his first choice owing to the influence of his father's experience ), but was initially rejected because of his father's nationality.

* 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

In May 1945 an RAF Lancaster of the Aries expedition became the first Commonwealth aircraft to overfly the North Geographic and North Magnetic Poles.

There were three successive incarnations of the organization, the " first generation " which consisted of Baader and his associates, the " second generation " RAF, which operated in the mid to late 1970s after several former members of the Socialist Patients ' Collective joined, and the " third generation " RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1970, a manifesto authored by Meinhof used the name " RAF " and the red star logo with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun for the first time.

After the arrest of the protagonists of the first generation of the RAF, they were held in solitary confinement in the newly-constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart.

Some have questioned how Baader managed to obtain a gun in the high-security prison wing specially constructed for the first generation RAF members.

The name correctly refers to all incarnations of the organization: the " first generation " RAF, which consisted of Baader and his associates, the " second generation " RAF, and the " third generation " RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 90s.

Minutes later the first salvo of Soviet nuclear weapon strikes NATO targets in Western Europe, including RAF Finningley from Sheffield.

She returned to England by Lysander on 30 April 1944, landing at RAF Tempsford, after an intense but successful first mission.

The Valiant entered service in 1955, the Vulcan in 1956 and the Victor in April 1958, with the first Valiant squadron, No. 138 Squadron RAF forming at RAF Gaydon in 1955, and the first Vulcan squadron, No. 83, at RAF Waddington in May 1957.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

General Hershey's draft and Doc Eddyman and Cap were responsible for his first eminence, but Fearless Freddy Bryan could take credit, if he cared to ( and he did ), for the second time.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

The first Baptists – called " General Baptists " because of their confession of a " general " or unlimited atonement, were Arminians.

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

Alaric's first appearance was as the leader of a mixed band of Goths and allied peoples who invaded Thrace in 391, who were stopped by the half-Vandal Roman General Stilicho.

The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.

For example, the General Mills Betty Crocker's Cookbook, first published in 1950 and currently in its 10th edition, is commonly found in American homes.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

* 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

A systematic review of randomized controlled trials published in the Archives of General Psychiatry showed up to one-third of the six-week effect of SSRI treatment can be seen in the first week.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation ( GCC ).

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

After an initial success, his first line of cavalry, under the Imperial General of Horse, Prince Maximilian of Hanover, were pressed by the second line of Marsin's cavalry, and were forced back across the Nebel in confusion.

John Wesley consecrated Thomas Coke a " General Superintendent ," and directed that Francis Asbury also be consecrated for the United States of America in 1784, where the Methodist Episcopal Church first became a separate denomination apart from the Church of England.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.