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The first okapi to arrive in North America was at the Bronx Zoo, via Antwerp, in 1937.
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The generic name Okapia derives from the Lese Karo name o ' api, while the specific name ( johnstoni ) is in recognition of the explorer Harry Johnston, who organized the expedition that first acquired an okapi specimen for science from the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The first okapi born in captivity outside Congo was at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium in 1953 ; the first born in North America was at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in 1959.
* The okapi is observed for the first time ( previously known only to local natives ).
In addition there are okapi, which Bristol was one of the first zoos in the world to breed, Asiatic lion, pygmy hippo, and red panda, among the 300 mammals in its collection, representing 50 species ( from a total of over 4, 300 mammal species on earth )
The first phase of the plan was to be a £ 90 million, enclosed African rainforest-themed sanctuary for a band of gorillas, a troop of chimpanzees, okapi, and a variety of tropical birds, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, and invertebrates, moving freely among lush vegetation.
Brookfield has had exceptional success in breeding the sitatunga, a type of antelope ; it also bred the world ’ s first captive-born black rhinoceros ( 1941 ) and gray-headed kingfisher ( 1980 ), the first okapi born in the United States ( 1959 ), and the first wombat born outside Australia ( 1975 ).
first and arrive
While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.
Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.
The first to arrive was Émile Levassor in his Panhard-Levassor 1205cc model.
Only the first 6000 to arrive were admitted and paid, with the red rope now used to keep latecomers at bay.
* 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
* 1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.
Rumours of a battle first appeared in the French press as early as 7 August, although credible reports did not arrive until 26 August, and even these claimed that Nelson was dead and Bonaparte a British prisoner.
John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.
They are the first recorded Africans to arrive in London at the time, and were considered luxury servants.
The first European Americans to arrive in what is known as Eagle Valley were John C. Fremont and his exploration party in January 1843.
* 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
Sally Durant Plummer, " blond, petite, sweet-faced " and at 49 " still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago ", a former Weismann girl is the first guest to arrive ; her ghostly youthful counterpart moves towards her.
There is special treatment of the first two pixels that arrive before the table grows from its initial size by additions of strings.
These first whales to arrive are usually pregnant mothers looking for the protection of the lagoons to bear their calves, along with single females seeking mates.
He was the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as Apollo 17 crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lunar Module first.
The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to arrive, invading in mid-century ; the Avars attacked in AD 570 ; and the Croatian tribes invaded in the early 7th century.
" By waiting until the first clone is among us or about to be born, we complicate the problem immensely and guarantee that we will not be able to have the national and international conversation and debate to arrive at particularly good decisions like using protection.
Perhaps the first Bantu speakers to arrive in present day Zimbabwe were the makers of early Iron Age pottery belonging to the Silver Leaves or Matola tradition, third to fifth centuries A. D., found in southeast Zimbabwe.
* 1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
* 1917 – The first U. S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
* 2002 – The first twenty captives arrive at Camp X-Ray.
As one of the first delegates to arrive, while waiting for the convention to begin, Madison wrote what became known as the Virginia Plan.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4, 000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts ; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age thirteen in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.
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The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.
A flow of correspondence between Pfohl and Miss Baldrige resulted in an invitation to the 85-student North Carolina group to play the first concert.
His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly detailed studies of indigenous North American cultures.
* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.
* In 1921, the British were the first to cross the North Atlantic in an airship.
After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.
* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
* 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.
* 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
* 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established.
The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
* 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.
* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.
The first book gives a history from 788 onwards of the Church in Hamburg-Bremen, and the Christian mission in the North.
It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.
* 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
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