According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

* 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.

Marcedes Lewis went to his first pro bowl and the Jags had one of the best young defensive tackle duo with Terrance Knighton and rookie Tyson Alualu.

In 1997, Major League Baseball " universally " retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams ; the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored.

He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a U. S. Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate.

A pro set is first to 8 ( or 10 ) games by a margin of two games, instead of first to 6 games.

* April 6 – At Federal Hall, the United States Senate attains its first quorum and elects John Langdon of Pennsylvania as its first President pro tempore.

Simpson of the Buffalo Bills became the first running back to rush for 2, 000 yards in a pro football season.

* July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress in Tours, France, leading to foundation of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.

* September 28 – The House of Commons of England introduces the first pro forma bill, symbolizing its authority over its own affairs.

Benjamin Wade | Benjamin F. Wade came within one vote of being the first president pro tempore to succeed to the President of the United States | presidency after the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.

The first president pro tempore, John Langdon, was elected on April 6 the same year.

Hubert Humphrey ( D-List of United States Senators from Minnesota | Minnesota ) was the first Deputy President pro tempore in 1977 – 1978

The new law restored the Congressional officers to places directly after the Vice President, but switched their order from the 1792 Act, placing the Speaker of the House first and the President pro tempore second.

The album's five ' acid stamps ' and first track " Ah Feel like Ahcid " may underline this, while ' Smokin ' Stones ' is probably a ' pro comment ' on the contrasting rhythm and blues style of the Rolling Stones.

( Coincidentally, Jacksonville was also slated to be the host of the 1986 USFL Championship Game, but that game was never played as the USFL folded ; it would not be until February 2005 that the city would host its first championship pro football game, Super Bowl XXXIX.

Haywood was one of the first players to turn pro before graduating from college, and the NBA initially refused to let him play in the league.

Vélez won her first 10 pro fights before suffering her first loss as a professional, in her first defense of the WIBA title.

The WBC awarded De La Hoya their welterweight title, which he lost, along with the IBA title, to Shane Mosley ( 34 – 0 ) by a split decision on 17 June 2000, given De La Hoya the first sound defeat of his pro career.

" Long " Jim Barnes was resident professional of the course at the time ( James Kelly Thomson was the course's first pro ), and every major golfer of the day competed in the event except for Bobby Jones.

It was the season's first night game and an obvious refocusing of the lights are in order.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The prototype was given to engineer Howard Delman, who refined it, productized it, and then added additional features for Atari's first vector game, Lunar Lander.

The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

* 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

The Falcons had their first season in, and their first preseason game on August 1,, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Falcons had their first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

Five matches were played in 1902 but the first two were drawn after being hit by bad weather.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.