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.

In the Canada 2011 Census, the main communities in Onaping Falls were listed for the first time as two of six distinct population centres ( or urban areas ) in Greater Sudbury: Dowling ( population 1, 690, density 475. 0 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) and Onaping-Levack ( population 2, 042, density 251. 3 km < sup > 2 </ sup >).

* 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

The first Welland Canal, which opened in 1829 between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, bypassing Niagara Falls and the Lachine Canal ( 1825 ), which allowed ships to skirt the nearly impassable rapids on the St. Lawrence River at Montreal were built for commerce.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

When Geneva moved to Beaver Falls, Old Main was the first classroom structure, completed in 1881.

* 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

* 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.

* 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

* 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

During his leadership projects completed included the first storage reservoir at Lake Minnewanka, a second transmission line to Calgary and the construction of the Kananaskis Falls hydro station.

His first science fiction serial was Dark Season ; two years later he wrote Century Falls.

* The first geothermal milk pasteurization is done in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

* June 30 – Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope for the first time.

* Seneca Falls Convention ( first convention for women's rights ) in Seneca Falls, New York ; 1848

* June 3 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

* April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.

* Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls ( they are named after him ).

* November 17 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia – Zimbabwe.

These were the words used by Andre Rebouças, an engineer, in his book " Provinces of Paraná, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia ", which started up the campaign aimed at preserving the Iguaçu Falls in 1876, when Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was four years old.

There are currently six in the works that began with the first short, Coyote Falls, that preceded the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which was released on July 30, 2010.

A number of figures have been suggested as first circulating an eyewitness description of Niagara Falls.

In 1893, Westinghouse Electric was hired to design a system to generate alternating current on Niagara Falls, and three years after that, the world's first large AC power system was created, activated on August 26, 1895.

In 1961, when the Niagara Falls hydroelectric project first went on line, it was the largest hydropower facility in the Western world.

Kirk Jones of Canton, Michigan became the first known person to survive a plunge over the Horseshoe Falls without a flotation device on October 20, 2003.

Composer Ferde Grofe was commissioned by the Niagara Falls Power Generation project in 1960 to compose the Niagara Falls Suite in honor of the completion of the first stage of hydroelectric work at the falls.