The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.

She worked as a domestic, first in Newport for a year, and then in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for another year.

* In 1922, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the first to cross the South Atlantic in an airship.

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

The first governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh, clashed frequently with others, in particular with the Resident Commissioner, James Hurtle Fisher.

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

* 1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.

Ælle (; also Aelle or Ella ) is recorded in early sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.

* 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.

In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.

* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

* Robert Upshaw, first African Canadian in the RCMP

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

* 1972 – Abeid Karume, African political leader, first president of Zanzibar ( b. 1905 )

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

The issue was resolved after the first Test of the series against the touring South African team.

Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.

John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.

It was first proposed by South African Prime Minister J.

A series of four international conferences held first under Nigerian and then Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) sponsorship attempted to bring the Chadian factions together.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

These are among the first recordings made of traditional African music.

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

Kenya is the first African country to produce a completely processed census within one year after census