* 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.

Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.

Thatcher wanted to make Redwood a Junior Minister straight away after the election, but David Waddington, then Chief Whip, told her that he needed experience as an MP and backbencher first, where he remained for the next two years.

When the first republican ministry was formed under WH Waddington on 4 February 1879, he was one of its members, and continued in the ministry until 30 March 1885, except for two short interruptions ( from 10 November 1881 to 30 January 1882, and from 29 July 1882 to 21 February 1883 ), first as minister of education and then as minister of foreign affairs.

In their first season back in the 1st Division, 1963 – 64, Waddington guided Stoke to a mid-table finish.

Educated at first by his mother, George Grote was sent to Sevenoaks grammar school ( 1800 – 1804 ) and afterwards to Charterhouse School ( 1804 – 1810 ), where he studied under Dr Raine in company with Connop Thirlwall, George and Horace Waddington and Henry Havelock.

The first settlement occurred in 1797 near Waddington village, but an anonymous family was already living there.

Following a failed attempt in 1935 to make the first ascent of the remote, icy Mount Waddington in British Columbia, with a Sierra Club group, Brower added winter climbing to his expertise and made multiple first winter ascents of peaks in the Sierra Nevada.

Coincidentally, Kiszko's appeal was first lodged on the day Waddington was announced as the new Home Secretary in 1989.

No. 44 Squadron RAF was the first in RAF Bomber Command to fly operationally with the Avro Lancaster on 2 March 1942 from Waddington.

In the Cold War, RAF Waddington became an Avro Vulcan V-bomber bomber base, with 83 Sqn being the first in the RAF to receive the Vulcan in May 1957.

The squadron was then receiving the first of the E-3Ds at its present home of RAF Waddington.

" From these lessons in metaphysics, Waddington first gained an appreciation for interconnected holistic systems.

His first marriage produced a son, C. Jake Waddington, professor of physics at the University of Minnesota, but ended in 1936.

The first bank was opened in Cranbrook in 1803 by Samuel Waddington.

In the 1940s, he made first ascents of four peaks in the area around Mount Waddington in the Coast Range of British Columbia, on an HMC expedition.

For the first Test, Fender was omitted from the team at the last minute, Abe Waddington taking the last place, and he was twelfth man.

The first printed edition was published in 1974, and contained the comment on Watneys brewery: " Avoid like the plague ", which generated a lot of media attention and caused the publisher, Waddington, to recall the first print run and revise the description to " Avoid at all costs ".

In 1958, he moved to Ben Nicholson ’ s former studio at Porthmeor, St Ives, and two years later he held his first exhibitions in New York at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery and at the newly arrived Waddington Galleries in London.

The Senate Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations was provided samples of visual aids on first aid and personal health produced by the Medical Illustration Service.

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

* Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, celebrated on the first Sunday of August.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

The focus of conservation development then accelerated in Britain and America, and it was in Britain that the first International Conservation Organisations developed.

In 1928 he first presented a paper at the International Congress of Americanists in which he presented his translation of a Nahuatl document held at the Peabody Museum at Harvard.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

In Sept 1956, the team added a sixth aircraft to the flight demonstration in the Opposing Solo position, and gave its first performance outside the United States at the International Air Exposition in Toronto, Canada.

The Brezhnev Doctrine (, ) was a Soviet Union foreign policy, first and most clearly outlined by S. Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article, entitled " Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries.

The mathematics of crystal structures developed by Bravais, Federov and others was used to classify crystals by their symmetry group, and tables of crystal structures were the basis for the series International Tables of Crystallography, first published in 1935.

Organized cheerleading competitions began to pop up with the first ranking of the " Top Ten College Cheerleading Squads " and " Cheerleader All America " awards given out by the International Cheerleading Foundation in 1967.

The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd.

The first successful calculators with LCDs were manufactured by Rockwell International and sold from 1972 by other companies under such names as: Dataking LC-800, Harden DT / 12, Ibico 086, Lloyds 40, Lloyds 100, Prismatic 500 ( aka P500 ), Rapid Data Rapidman 1208LC.

In the August race at Michigan International Speedway, Earnhardt led laps late in the race and nearly pulled off his first win on a non-restrictor plate track since 1996.

Malaria Foundation International states, " The outcome of the treaty is arguably better than the status quo going into the negotiations ... For the first time, there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before.

In 1949, the World Health Organization published the sixth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases ( ICD ) which included a section on mental disorders for the first time.

The first conference in the field, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ), dates back to 1982, and its European counterpart International Symposium on Distributed Computing ( DISC ) was first held in 1985.

The respective first accurate glosses for Taoism were " douizm ; tou -" ( Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed., 1934 ) and " Also Daoism and with pronunc.

In 1996 Jones International University was launched and claims to be the first fully online university accredited by a regional accrediting association in the US.

Esperanto is also the first language of teaching and administration of one university, the International Academy of Sciences San Marino.

Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years.

He was the first Research Director of the International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ), which presented the Interlingua conference in 1951.

The longest established festival is the Edinburgh International Festival, which first ran in 1947.

The standard was developed by ECMA International, which first approved the standard on 21 June 2005 as Standard ECMA-367, < cite > Eiffel: Analysis, Design and Programming Language </ cite >.