The facility was named Kamakaiwi Field after James Kamakaiwi, a young Hawaiian who had arrived with the first group of four colonists, was subsequently picked as leader and spent a total of over three years on Howland, far longer than the average recruit.

They had been unable to find detailed maps of the area, which contained the Soviets ' first military plutonium production facility at Mayak, making knowledge of the area vital in the event of war with the Soviet Union.

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

The first casino facility in the state opened in September 1994 in North Kansas City by Harrah's Entertainment ( now Caesar's Entertainment ).

Kenneth M. Miller is credited as being the first technical director to officially launch MTV from its New York-based network operations facility.

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

The first touchdown in the new facility was scored by Joe Senser on an 11 yard pass from Tommy Kramer.

Rickey Young scored the first regular-season touchdown in the facility on a 3 yard run in the 2nd quarter.

The mountain was destroyed during an attack on the facility by Able Squad at the climax of the first season of the show.

* 1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.

It was the first educational facility to create such an initiative and an example of Northern's vision for the future.

The London branch of the OSS, its first overseas facility, was at 70, Grosvenor Street, W1.

In ignorance of Legendre's contribution, an Irish-American writer, Robert Adrain, editor of " The Analyst " ( 1808 ), first deduced the law of facility of error,

Two days later, the US Bankruptcy Court approved its first day motions and its use of a $ 70 million financing facility provided by a group of its bondholders.

By implementing appropriately, one can create distributed systems where proxies forward messages across a network to other Smalltalk systems ( a facility common in systems like CORBA, COM + and RMI but first pioneered in Smalltalk-80 in the 1980s ), and persistent systems where changes in state are written to a database and the like.

The university has been composting since 1995, and in 2003 it built the first composting facility in the state on an urban campus.

Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, is named after him.

Tape-out is usually a cause for celebration by everyone who worked on the project, followed by trepidation awaiting the first article, the first physical samples of a chip from the manufacturing facility ( semiconductor foundry ).

In 1901 the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba changed the University Act so that the university could do its own teaching, and in 1905 a building in downtown Winnipeg became its first teaching facility with a staff of six science professors.

* May 31 – Mecklenburg Correctional Center-6 inmates-including James and Linwood Briley escape from a death row facility, the first and only occasion this has ever happened in the US.

* November 26 – At the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.

Pioneers at the Japanese facility RIKEN were the first to use a giant gas catcher and novel electric fields to do this, which is becoming the standard technique.

With the war effort in Europe and the Atlantic in full swing, additional submarines and support craft arrived the following year and the facility was named as the Navy's first Submarine Base.

The laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

These coaches in turn have their own disciples who have utilized Walsh's West Coast system such as Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak first a quarterback coach with the 49ers, then offensive coordinator for Shanahan at the Denver Broncos.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

The team was unable to make another serious charge, and finished at 88 – 74, five games behind both Houston and St. Louis, who tied for first.

The first Compaq PC was sketched out on a table napkin by Ted Papajohn while dining with the founders in a Houston restaurant.

The first deal came days after the World Series, when the Marlins traded outfielder Moisés Alou to the Houston Astros for pitchers Oscar Hernandez and Manuel Barrios.

At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.

The opera's first performance, with Matt Kelly portraying Brood, was 12 November 2010 in Houston, Texas.

Houston sent second baseman Joe Morgan, infielder Denis Menke, pitcher Jack Billingham, outfielder Cesar Geronimo and prospect Ed Armbrister to Cincinnati for first baseman Lee May, second baseman Tommy Helms and infielder Jimmy Stewart.

McMullen showed the city of Houston that he too wanted a winning team, signing nearby Alvin, Texas native Nolan Ryan to the first million-dollar-a-year deal.

They bounced back to first with a ten-game winning streak, but the Dodgers had regained a two-game lead when they arrived in Houston on September 9.

Advancing to the playoffs as winners of the second half, Houston beat Los Angeles in their first two playoff games at home, but the Dodgers took the next three in Los Angeles to advance to the NLCS.

Before Lanier took over, fans were accustomed to Houston's occasional slow starts, but with Lanier leading the way, Houston got off to a hot start, winning 13 of their first 19 contests.

Chicago had been considered the slight favorite but would win all four games, the first two at U. S. Cellular Field in Chicago and the final two in Houston.

The team played its first regular season game at home before a crowd of 72, 363 on September 3, 1995, a 10 – 3 loss against the Houston Oilers.

The team picked up its first win in Week 4 as the Jaguars defeated the Oilers 17 – 16 on October 1 in Houston.

* 1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

* 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.

John W. Mecom, Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games going into extra innings, they fell behind 2 – 1 but battled back to squeeze past the Houston Astros on a tenth-inning, game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first pennant in 30 years.

Houston nominated James Collinsworth to be the first chief justice.

* 1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

On June 13, 2012, Matt Cain pitched the first perfect game in the 129 year history of the franchise, against the Houston Astros at AT & T Park.