Its first Allied-appointed mayor, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by an SS commando unit.

The first regional mayor was Thoms Thors.

* Armand Joseph Dubernad ( 1741 – 1799 ), financial trader, consul general of the Holy Roman Empire, deputy, mayor and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club of Brittany.

In 1920, while mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which set out many of the principles that informed his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years.

Only Austrasia ( green ) supported an Arnulfing mayor, first Theudoald then Charles.

George Mitchell was elected the first mayor.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.

In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.

Parker was a resident of Davenport and one of six trustees elected to govern the city with Rodolphus Bennet being the first mayor.

in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.

On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.

Mrs Garrett Anderson: first English woman physician ; mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908

During the political opening after the military regime, the people elected the city's first woman mayor, Maria Luíza Fontenele, and had the first city hall commanded by a left-wing party.

The first game was played April 20, 1912, with mayor John F. Fitzgerald throwing out the first pitch and Boston defeating the New York Highlanders ( renamed the Yankees the next year ), 7-6 in 11 innings.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

The first Kashubian mayor of Gdingen was Jan Radtke.

The world's first GSM call was made by the Finnish prime minister Harri Holkeri to Kaarina Suonio ( mayor in city of Tampere ) on 1 July 1991 on a network built by Telenokia and Siemens and operated by Radiolinja.

In 1964, the first elections were held for a community council, and in 1979 for the first mayor.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

In 1256, the castrum of Abensprech was first mentioned, and on 12 June 1348, Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, and his brother, Stephen, Duke of Bavaria, raised Abensberg to the status of a city, giving it the right to operate lower courts, enclose itself with a wall and hold markets.

* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies.

As a spa city, Aachen could use the title Bad Aachen, but as the town then would not appear in first place on alphabetically ordered lists, it declined to do so.

In 1372, Aachen became the first coin-minting city in the world to regularly place an Anno Domini date on a general circulation coin, a groschen.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

In 1254, in the city of Leiria, he held the first session of the Cortes, a general assembly comprising the nobility, the middle class and representatives of all municipalities.

* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.

He was granted lands by the crown, and built the first fortification of the city that evolved into modern-day Copenhagen.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

* Eponymous city of Inganock from Seiken no Inganock: What a Beautiful People is stated to be the first and only successful arcology in its setting.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

However the first mention of a city sized settlement was in 1256.

Claudius was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honour of the city's anniversary, in 48 AD, 800 years after the founding of the city.

One of the first reactions was to simply increase the guard, creating what at times might seem a small army trailing every leader ; another was to begin clearing large areas whenever a leader was present, to the point where entire sections of a city might be shut down.

The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build there a church to celebrate the Conquest of Santarém, to the Moors, in 1147.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks ; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.