The first choice, abandoning tests entirely, would not only be unpopular domestically, but would surely be exploited by the Russians.

* 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

* 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.

The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

The Lions did however lose the first three tests to South Africa, winning the last one, though the series had already been won by the Springboks.

In this case a doctor may recommend frequent blood tests during the first few months of use, followed by three to four tests per year for established patients.

The first successful interoperability tests were announced by the DECT Forum in June 2011.

The Baudot system was accepted by the French Telegraph Administration during 1875, with the first online tests of his system occurring between Paris and Bordeaux on November 12, 1877.

From May 1934 until October 1935, Armstrong conducted the first large scale field tests of his FM radio technology from a laboratory constructed by RCA on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.

* 1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.

When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first.

This 18 week period thus includes the time to arrange a first appointment, the time for any investigations or tests to determine the cause of the problem and how it should be treated.

The October 1923 Honduran presidential elections and the subsequent political and military conflicts provided the first real tests of these new treaty arrangements.

The psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904 made the first formal factor analysis of correlations between the tests.

In 1948, between missions of mine clearance, underwater exploration and technological and physiological tests, Cousteau undertook a first campaign in the Mediterranean on board the sloop Élie Monnier, with Philippe Tailliez, Frédéric Dumas, Jean Alinat and the scenario writer Marcel Ichac.

When IQ tests are revised they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

In 1956 the United Kingdom selected Malden as the " instrumentation site " for its first series of thermonuclear ( H-bomb ) weapons tests, based at Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ).

* 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

When power is first applied to the motherboard, the BIOS firmware tests and configures memory, circuitry, and peripherals.

The task of constructing five engineering mules ( more developed prototypes ) was again allocated to IAD, which also conducted the first front and rear crash tests on the P729.

* 2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

The first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket performed nominally ; the spacecraft, along with the mission's three crew members aboard, successfully entered orbit around Earth just under twelve minutes after lift-off.

Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BC – c. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

At his memorial service on 22 June 1825 his own Requiem in C minor — composed in 1804 – was performed for the first time.

It was first performed in Leipzig on 9 March 1930.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

This was a crippling blow to Berg's self-confidence: he effectively withdrew the work, which is surely one of the most extraordinarily innovative and assured first orchestral compositions in the literature, and it was not performed in full until 1952.

Three excerpts from Wozzeck were performed in 1924, and this brought Berg his first public success.

The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin.

This might sound complex, but first of all the number of di-atomic molecules that can exist at the temperatures of the atomizers used in AAS is relatively small, and second, the correction is performed by the computer within a few seconds.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

That fall she performed her first ticketed concert — in Fort Worth, Texas — after beginning her freshman year at Furman University.

Olivecrona performed the first surgical excision of an intracranial AVM in 1932.

It was first performed in France in 1894.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

During Clinton's term, Arkansas performed its first executions since 1964 ( the death penalty had been re-enacted on March 23, 1973 ).

Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 1 is a set of three piano trios ( written for piano, violin, and violoncello ), first performed in 1793 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they are dedicated.

* Proclamation of the Republic ( 1889 ): End of the Brazilian Empire, this was the first coup d ' état performed by the Brazilian military.