It was first documented by Albertus Magnus in 1250.

* 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola ; the first to be documented by satellites.

The condition was first documented in 1807 by a livestock observationist named George Culley.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

* The first documented Hello, world program, in Kernighan's " A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B " ( 1972 ).

The first documented bouldering advocate may have been Oscar Eckenstein, a British engineer and innovative climber who wrote about bouldering, and in the 1890s conducted an informal bouldering competition for natives in Askole, a village in the Karakoram mountains.

However, during the Battle of Megiddo, the first reliably documented battle in the fifteenth century BC, actual discipline was instilled in both armies.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

File: London 307. JPG | Room 52-The Cyrus Cylinder ; is regarded by many as the world ’ s first documented charter of human rights

The Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.

The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of something called intercollegiate " football " ever played between two American colleges, and because of this, Rutgers refers to itself as The Birthplace of College Football.

The crisis served the first documented instance of the threat of mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement.

The first documented battlefield use of fire lances took place in 1132 when Chen Gui used them to defend De ' an from attack by the Jurchen Jin.

Barth traces the first documented use to a centrist political meeting in the Munich Löwenbräu-Keller on November 2, 1918, in which Ernst Müller-Meiningen, a member of the Progressive coalition in the Reichstag, used the term to exhort his listeners to keep fighting:

The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973.

Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text ; emoticons for a smiley face and sad face appear in the first documented use in digital form.

The German-language Elbinger Rechtsbuch, written in Elbing, Prussia documented among other laws for the first time Polish common law.

A 2011 published study documented the first metal-free electrocatalyst using relatively inexpensive doped carbon nanotubes that are less than 1 % the cost of platinum and are of equal or superior performance.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

Since the first commercial cultivation of genetically modified plants in 1996, they have been modified to be tolerant to the herbicides glufosinate and glyphosate, to be resistant to virus damage as in Ringspot virus-resistant GM papaya, grown in Hawaii, and to produce the Bt toxin, an insecticide that is documented as non-toxic to mammals.

The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon.

Book 9 ends with Gorm the Old, the first factual documented King of Denmark.

The term sacrum imperium ( Holy Empire ) was first used under Friedrich I, documented first in 1157.

The stick was swung down to ground level when a first down was being set, and a marker that slid along the shaft was fixed in place to line up with the nearest gridiron line ( the major yard lines spaced every five yards ).

On November 9, 1861, Mulock captained one of the teams in the first gridiron football game ever recorded.

American football ( and gridiron football more generally ) also has its origins in the English variants of the game, with the first set of intercollegiate football rules based directly on the rules of the Football Association in London.

The term " gridiron " in reference to football first developed in the United States.

Temporary seats were often placed in right field for football games at Griffith, with the gridiron stretching from left field to the first base line.

After taking the Golden Knights to the CIF Playoffs for the fourth straight year, head coach Jim Bonds ’. 638 winning percentage continues among the best since the school first took to the gridiron in 1949.

On September 20, 1969, the game between Northern Illinois and Idaho marked the state ’ s first major-college gridiron contest played on artificial turf ; the Huskies won, 47 – 30.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube ( Crux / Southern Cross Sports Club ) is a first class football ( soccer ) club in Brazil.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

The Korea Republic national football team have also used the ground twice in recent years for international friendlies, first against Greece in February 2007 and then against Serbia in November 2009.

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

The completion of the first ever American football season came as a result of only two total games being played.

A game which modern audiences would more readily recognize as American football occurred six years after the first ever game and occurred between Harvard University and Tufts University on June 4, 1875.

This first game was a lot like rugby but much closer to the modern day version of football than soccer.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.