* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

The first of these shows was recorded and televised, and later released as a CD and DVD.

* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).

* 1947 – Proceedings of the U. S. Congress are televised for the first time.

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

Major presented only one Budget, the first one to be televised live, in early 1990.

Chernenko's illness was first acknowledged publicly on 22nd February 1985 during a televised election rally in Kuibyshev Borough of northeast Moscow, where the General Secretary stood as candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, when Politburo member Viktor Grishin revealed that the General Secretary was absent in accordance with doctors ' advice.

The first football match to be televised in colour was between Liverpool and West Ham United, broadcast live in March 1967.

" Spam " is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970.

* 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.

* 1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.

* 1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States ' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

* 1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.

Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 to 1959 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of child performers.

It was played on Thursday September 9, 2010 and televised on NBC, making it the first time the Saints have opened the NFL's season at home.

* 1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

* 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

* 1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.

It was the first time a Super Bowl was televised live on only one network, which has been the case for all following Super Bowl games.

This was the first Super Bowl to be televised live in the city in which it was being played.

CBS televised the game in the United States with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall ( calling his first Super Bowl in that role ) and color commentator Tom Brookshier.

This was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, joining the annual broadcasting rotation of the game with CBS and NBC.

As a result of the 1982 television contract signed by the NFL with the three networks, this game was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, as they earned their first turn at the Super Bowl, with a new alternation process started for the 1983 game.

The halftime show was later shown on tape delay after the game ( at around 10: 40 EST and 9: 40 CST ), although most ABC affiliates ran the first episode of Davis Rules following the Super Bowl, and may have televised the remaining parts  of the halftime show later.

The Kennedy administration moves haltingly toward a Geneva conference on Laos just as serious debate over its foreign policy erupts for the first time.

Albertus was the first to comment on virtually all of the writings of Aristotle, thus making them accessible to wider academic debate.

Disraeli's first premiership was dominated by the heated debate over the established Church of Ireland.

After much reluctance and debate New Zealand agreed to change for the Tests and the All Blacks became the All Whites for the first time.

Ever since Europeans first encountered Confucianism, the issue of how Confucianism should be classified has been subject to debate.

Although the first, which emphasizes the potential for energy and resource conservation and health benefits gained from cycling versus automobile use, is relatively undisputed, the second is the subject of much debate.

One of the first uses of the term green conservatism was by former United States Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in a debate on environmental issues with John Kerry.

John Thomas believed that scripture, as God's word, did not support a multiplicity of differing beliefs, and challenged the leaders to continue with the process of restoring first century Christian beliefs and correct interpretation through a process of debate.

Rather he believed he had rediscovered first century beliefs from the Bible alone, and sought to prove that through a process of challenge and debate and writing journals.

In the early first decade of the 21st century, campus-wide debate focused on a Board of Trustees recommendation that Greek organizations become " substantially coeducational "; this attempt to the change the Greek system eventually failed.

The party re-emerged as a voice in Taiwan's political debate when Ma's administration reached the end of its first year in office.

The first matter brought up for debate was the dogmatic draft of Catholic doctrine against the manifold errors due to Rationalism.

This was partly due to the perception that the internal debate over the war in Afghanistan had been more honest and open than in other parties, and one of the MPs who had voted against the Afghanistan deployment, Hans-Christian Ströbele, was directly elected to the Bundestag as a district representative for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg East constituency in Berlin, becoming the first Green to ever gain a first-past-the-post seat in Germany.

In 2008, the EU's eurozone entered its first recession, sparking a debate about possible economic collapse.

When Henry II died in 1024, Conrad II, first of the Salian Dynasty, was then elected king in 1024 only after some debate among dukes and nobles, which would eventually develop into the collegiate of Electors.

Experts continue to debate the significance and risk of such levels, though the trend has been to recommend maintenance of glucose levels above 60 – 70 mg / dL the first day after birth.

Which comes first is a matter of debate, and there may be no universal story that applies to all cases.

Growing community unrest about the draft, the rising tide of casualties and social debate about the moral rectitude of the war fuelled the first significant stirrings of organised domestic opposition, such as the influential community anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons.

" 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.

A debate over limitations on military spending and the sovereignty of the emperor ensued, contributing to the great reduction in the Liberal Party's majority in the first post-occupation elections ( October 1952 ).

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

Though few in the new congress wanted to debate a possible Bill of Rights ( for the next century, most thought that the Declaration of Independence, not the first ten constitutional amendments, constituted the true Bill of Rights ), Madison pressed the issue.

The first half of the 20th century saw an explosion of fundamental results, accompanied by vigorous debate over the foundations of mathematics.

There is continuing debate as to when Mobilian Jargon first began to be spoken.

" When his peerage was first announced, he said, " It will give me the opportunity ... to contribute to the national debate on issues like higher education, research, Europe and foreign policy.