Tourism arrived in the mid-1960s with the building of the present airport at El Mattoral and the first tourist hotels.

In the past decade, Hobart International Airport received a huge upgrade, with the airport now being a first class airport facility.

One of the first instances when it was used by militants was on 13 January 1975 at the Orly airport in France, when Carlos the Jackal, together with another member from the PFLP, used two Soviet RPG-7 grenades to attack an Israeli El Al airliner.

* BBC News-" Saint Helena to get first airport "

Seletar Airport is Singapore's first civil aviation airport and is primarily used for private aviation today.

In summer 2010, the world's first permanent airport library opened alongside the museum, providing passengers access to a collection of 1, 200 books ( translated into 29 languages ) by Dutch authors or on subjects relating to the country ’ s history and culture.

It is not accessible to connecting passengers unless they first exit the airport.

Grissom occasionally spent time at a local airport in Bedford, Indiana where he first became interested in flying.

Bisbee-Douglas International Airport in Arizona was declared " the first international airport of the Americas " by US president Roosevelt.

The first airport to operate scheduled international commercial services was Hounslow Heath Aerodrome in August 1919, but it was closed and supplanted by Croydon Airport in March 1920.

In 1922, the first permanent airport and commercial terminal solely for commercial aviation was opened at Flughafen Devau near what was then Königsberg, East Prussia.

The first lighting used on an airport was during the latter part of the 1920s ; in the 1930s approach lighting came into use.

In 1932, Ireland's first commercial airport was set up at Kildonan in Finglas.

Fresh off his huge re-electoral mandate, one of Daley's first major acts was ordering the demolition of Meigs Field, a small, downtown, lakefront airport used by general aviation aircraft and helicopters.

Although Imperial Airways and Pan-American World Airways both began flying to Bermuda in the 1930s ( by which time the summer had become more important for tourists making briefer visits ), it wasn't until after the Second World War, when the first airport for landplanes was built, and the advent of the Jet Age that tourism really realised its potential.

The first track of the airport was built in 1939 with military purposes.

By decision of the Ministry of Defense-Air Force, in 10 December 1975 the airport was named Tito Minniti, first pilot crashed in East Africa December 26, 1935 during the Ethiopian war.

Another project, already underway, is the Cagliari metro: the first line has already started running from Piazza Repubblica to the Cagliari suburb of Monserrato, and another will soon connect the University campus ; works for other lines to all the city suburbs and the airport are planned.

The first ( current ) phase initially allowed the airport to accommodate 16 million passengers a year, but was upgraded to 21 million passengers a year without progressing to the next phase thanks primarily to IT advances.

Lighter systems with shorter tracks are widely deployed at airports ; the world's first airport people mover was installed in 1971 at Tampa International Airport in the United States.

The following year, the company moved to a new permanent home at Lydd Ferryfield, Britain's first newly-constructed post-war airport.

This site would host Britain's first newly-constructed post-war and first privately-owned airport.

The occasion marked the Duke's first visit to a private British airline at an all-new, privately-owned airport.

The first precious seedlings from Spain were planted in Lima by Antonio de Rivera in 1560.

The first known city in all of the America was Caral, located in the Supe Valley 200 km north of Lima.

* April 2 – In Rome, Pope Clement X canonizes Rose of Lima, making her the first Catholic saint of the Americas.

* Creation of the first fair in Portugal in Ponte de Lima, it is an early sign of the commercialization and economic development of a still backwardish and self-contained region.

* May 12 – The National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima ( Peru ), being the first officially established university in the Americas.

The first was the Gran Premio del Norte of 1940, run from Buenos Aires to Lima and back ; it was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a much modified Chevrolet coupé.

His first ever performance in Peru was held in Lima on 20 March 2009, during his second visit to the country.

It was in Lima that Gauguin encountered his first art.

Also in 2003, José Lima pitched for the Bears at the beginning of the season ; after the Kansas City Royals signed him away from Newark, Lima won his first seven decisions for the Royals.

The first action by the MRTA occurred on 31 May 1982, when five of its members, including Victor Polay Campos and Jorge Talledo Feria ( members of the Central Committee ) robbed a bank in La Victoria, Lima.

The first Portuguese viscountcy, that of D. Leonel de Lima, visconde de Vila Nova de Cerveira, dates from the reign of Afonso V. A flood of viscountcies, some 86 new titles, was awarded in Portugal between 1848 and 1880 ( Portuguese Wikipedia ).

The first settlement in what would become Lima was made up of 117 housing blocks.

The first and oldest Superior Court in Lima is the Superior Court of Justice of Lima belonging to the Judicial District of Lima.

While in Lima he also produced his first poetry collection, Los Heraldos Negros.

The first settlement of LaGrange County was founded about a half mile west of Lima in 1828.

It associated with the St Rose of Lima Parrish ( website ) and named for Rose of Lima ( 1586 – 1617 ), the first Catholic saint of the Americas.

Since 1831, Lima has been the center of government for Allen County, the first of its three courthouses erected in the city's first year.

1836 brought the first newspaper to Lima.

In 1854, the first train appeared in Lima, a harbinger of later economic success.