The first IFV was the Soviet BMP-1, which surprised western intelligence analysts when it appeared in a military parade in 1967.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

The Arabs expressed disapproval in November 1918 at the parade marking the first anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

* The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day ( the Bahamas )

Los Angeles held a big parade on the first Gay Pride Day.

The parade first occurred just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

On 12 October the same year the population of Bamako attending for the first time an army parade under the command of Captain Tiemoko Konate.

* 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

The parade float got its name because the first floats were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade marchers on the shore.

Strikingly, among the first uses of grounded floats — towed by horses — was a ceremony in memory of recently drowned parade oarsmen.

* Dahlia parade in Zundert always held on the first Sunday in September

* Italy-On the first Sunday of September, the regata storica parade is staged in Venice, as prelude to the rowing contests known as regattas.

* 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

Initially a " rancho carnavalesco ", then a Carnival's Block, and finally a samba school, the Deixa Falar was the first to Rio Carnival parade in the sound of an orchestra made up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and shakers.

The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

Except where a Drill Manual ( or parade ) protocol dictates otherwise, the duration of the salute is timed at three beats of the quick-time march ( approximately 1. 5 seconds ), timed from the moment the senior member first returns it.

At her wishes, her homecoming parade and banquet were the first fully integrated municipal events in the city's history.

* February 13 – Rex, the most famous parade on Mardi Gras, parades for the first time in New Orleans for Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia.

* September 5 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

* February 24 – The first parade to have floats occurs at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

* February – French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile ( Alabama ) by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart ( the first Mardi Gras parade in America ).

Mobile's Cowbellion de Rakin Society was the first formally organized and masked mystic society in the United States to celebrate with a parade in 1830.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Minerals first Discovered in Switzerland.

In the late 19th century in Switzerland, casein was first used as a wood glue.

It is therefore the first capital of a unified Switzerland.

In 1802 the Canton School was established ; it was the first non-parochial high school in Switzerland.

By October 2007 bluetongue had become a serious threat in Scandinavia and Switzerland and the first outbreak in Denmark was reported.

The team at the Paul Scherrer Institute ( PSI ) in Bern, Switzerland later synthesized 6 atoms of < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh in the first definitive study of the chemistry of bohrium ( see below ).

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

The first curling club in the United States was established in 1830, and the game was introduced to Switzerland and Sweden before the end of the 19th century, also by Scots.

Capello took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland, in which England won 2 – 1.

In 1944, he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris (" The Innocent of Paris "), in Switzerland.

H. R. Giger of Switzerland is one of the first graphic artists to make serious contributions to the gothic / industrial look of much of modern cinema with his work on the film " Alien " by Ridley Scott.

Three years later in Switzerland, Heinrich Hoessli published the first volume of Eros: Die Männerliebe der Griechen (" Eros: The Male-love of the Greeks "), another defence of same-sex love.

In 1952, Supramar launched the first commercial hydrofoil, PT10 " Freccia d ' Oro " ( Golden Arrow ), in Lake Maggiore, between Switzerland and Italy.

The stores spread to other parts of Europe in the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland ( 1973 ), followed by Germany ( 1974 ).

In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.

A patent application for IDEA was first filed in Switzerland ( CH A 1690 / 90 ) on May 18, 1990, then an international patent application was filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on May 16, 1991.

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ( French: Comité international olympique, CIO ) is an international non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president.

After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.

Brown ( by then in partnership with Walter Boveri ) put these into service on the first electrified main line, the Burgdorf — Thun line, Switzerland, in 1899.

In 1837 he issued the " Prodrome " of a monograph on the recent and fossil Echinodermata, the first part of which appeared in 1838 ; in 1839 – 40 he published two quarto volumes on the fossil Echinoderms of Switzerland ; and in 1840 – 45 he issued his Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (" Critical Studies on Fossil Mollusks ").

Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008.

* 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland

In 2006 he designed his first ever spa, the Bergoase Spa in Arosa, Switzerland.

* 1853 – Emilie Kempin-Spyri, first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree ( d. 1901 )