Under Abdülaziz's reign, Turkey's first postage stamps were issued in 1863, and Turkey joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875 as a founding member.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

In May 2006, Wray became one of the first four entertainers to ever be honored by Canada Post by being featured on a postage stamp.

Polk oversaw the opening of the U. S. Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, the groundbreaking for the Washington Monument, and the issuance of the first postage stamps in the United States.

The first adhesive postage stamp, commonly referred to as the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840.

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This is the first publication of an unambiguous description of a modern adhesive postage stamp ( though the term " postage stamp " did not yet exist at that time ).

The claim that the Scotsman James Chalmers was the inventor of the postage stamp first surfaced in 1881 when the book " The Penny Postage Scheme of 1837 ", written by his son, Patrick Chalmers, was published.

The first independent evidence for Chalmers ' claim is the essay and proposal he submitted for adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838.

The Penny Black, the world ’ s first postage stamp.

Although a number of people laid claim to the concept of the postage stamp, it is well documented that stamps were first introduced in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840, as a part of postal reforms promoted by Sir Rowland Hill.

Postmarks have been applied over stamps since the first postage stamps came into use.

When the first postage stamps premiered in the 1840s, they followed an almost identical standard in their shape, size and general subject matter.

For about the first ten years of postage stamp use ( depending on the country ), stamps were issued without perforations.

The first officially perforated postage stamp.

The United Kingdom was the first country to issue postage stamps with perforations, after years of struggle with the unsatisfactory cutting or tearing methods.

The first machine specifically designed to perforate postage stamps was invented in London by Henry Archer, an Irish landowner and railroad man from Dublin, Ireland.

A first day cover usually consists of an envelope, a postage stamp and a postmark with the date of the stamp ’ s first day of issue thereon.

Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and theorist of African socialism on a soviet postage stampAfrican socialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent.

The first postage stamp was issued for the island in 1856, the six-pence blue, marking the start of considerable philatelic interest in the island.

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

One more important innovation in communications was the Penny Black, the first postage stamp, which standardised postage to a flat price regardless of distance sent.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

As a consequence of Solomon's failure to stamp out the worship of gods other than Yahweh, the kingdom of David is split in two in the reign of his own son Rehoboam, who becomes the first to reign over the kingdom of Judah.

Romania n stamp from 1959 with Laika ( the caption reads " Laika, first traveller into Cosmos ")

" It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word " sex ," although as a synonym for gender.

National governments took little heed of his administration at first with the President having to stamp the Commission's authority early on.

In this book, the son claims that James Chalmers first produced an essay describing and advocating a stamp in August 1834.

The first stamp, the penny black, was put on sale on 1 May, to be valid as of 6 May 1840 ; two days later the two pence blue was introduced.

was the first stamp to be perforated in the course of the trials of Archer's perforating machine.

The first officially Postage stamp separation | perforated United States stamp ( 1857 ).

The first stamp issue to be officially perforated, the 3-cent George Washington, was issued by the U. S. Post Office on February 24, 1857.

The United States issued its first circular stamp in 2000 as a hologram of the earth.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

* 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.

* May 1 – Britain issues the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp.

* May 6 – The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage.

The first of them is Penny Black, issued by the United Kingdom on May 1, 1840.

When the first universal postal system was started in the United Kingdom with its Penny Black, the postmark used red ink for contrast.

" In 1903, African-American businesswoman and financier Maggie L. Walker chartered St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, and served as its first president, as well as the first female bank president in the United States.

First day cover of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, used on May 6, 1840 is verified by the datestamp on the backflap

Penny Toler scored the league's first point.

Helped by the return of Penny Taylor, the Mercury once again locked up first place in the Western Conference and advanced to the 2009 Finals.

The first adhesive postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in 1840 by Great Britain.

Penny candy became the first material good that children spent their own money on.

Owned by Penny Chenery, he was trained by Lucien Laurin and mainly ridden by Canadian jockey Ron Turcotte, along with apprentice jockey Paul Feliciano ( first two races ), and veteran Eddie Maple ( last race ).

A new award created in 2011 titled " Secretariat Vox Populi " ( voice of the people ) was presented by Penny Chenery to the first honoree, the 2010 Horse of the Year, Zenyatta.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

* Penny Johnson ( née Hanson ) ( Moyra Fraser ) — Jean's sister-in-law ( from Jean's first marriage to David ), Judith's auntie, and Stephen's wife

Jean's first husband's neurotic sister Penny ( Moyra Fraser ), who always calls Jean " Poor Jean ", and her dentist husband, Stephen ( Paul Chapman ), who once accidentally declined the OBE, also make many appearances.

* Penny Pitou, first US woman to win an Olympic medal in downhill skiing