We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

It has a hull patterned on that of the United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine.

The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.

* 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

The demand for ormers is such that they led to the world's first underwater arrest, when Mr. Kempthorne-Leigh of Guernsey was arrested by a police officer in full diving gear when illegally diving for ormers.

Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

* 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

* 2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

* Manville B. and Josiah Ober 2003, A company of citizens: what the world's first democracy teaches leaders about creating great organizations.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

The world's first-ever GSM phone call was made in Hervanta in 1991, when Radiolinja started building its GSM network.

On July 1, 1991, he made the world's first GSM call.

Broadly speaking, international roaming is easiest using the GSM standard, as it is used by over 80 % of the world's mobile operators.

While Unisys evetually secured PacBell's residential voice-mail services, Boston Technology became the mainstay of Bell Atlantic's residential voice-mail offering and Comverse Technology enjoyed some success in the European market ; Octel became the world's leading provider of voice-mail platforms for virtually all of the major US wireless carriers ( including the seven RBOCs, AT & T Wireless and McCaw ), Canadian cellular carriers and a large percent of the GSM carriers around the world.

GMSK, which is used by GSM in most of the world's 2nd generation cell phones.

* The world's first GSM videophone for Orange

GSM is the world's most dominant mobile phone standard.

In 1991 the world's first GSM call was made using Nokia devices.

Elisa launched the first commercial GSM service in 1991 and the world's first commercial UMTS900 network on November 8, 2007.

On March 27, 1991, the world's first GSM phone call was made on Radiolinja's network.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

WRGB claims to be the world's oldest television station, tracing its roots to an experimental station founded on January 13, 1928, broadcasting from the General Electric factory in Schenectady, NY, under the call letters W2XB.

In March 2007, the treatment of 30-year-old neurofibromatosis patient Pascal Coler of France ended after he had received what his doctors call the world's first successful full face transplant.

* On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public when he called Joel S. Engel at the New York Hilton with a 2 pound Motorola DynaTAC phone.

On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American " Couch Potato " when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird ( 1888 – 1946 ) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter ( call sign 2KZ ) in Coulsdon, Surrey ( a suburb of London ) to his colleague O. G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an amateur radio operator ( call sign 2CVJ ) in Hartsdale.

In 1916, the world's first commercially licensed radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting here as experimental station 8XK from a small garage owned by Frank Conrad before it was launched with its current call letters on November 2, 1920.

First introduced in the London area on 30 June 1937, the UK's 999 number is the world's oldest emergency call service.

Part biography, part political call to arms, Killing Me Softly documents the events around the world's first right-to-die law and provides analysis of the medico-legal model behind the voluntary euthanasia debate.

In support of his allegation, Bernard quotes Tertullian as writing against Praxeas: " The simple, indeed ( I will not call them unwise or unlearned ), who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation ( of the Three in One ), on the very ground that their very Rule of Faith withdraws them from the world's plurality of gods to the one only true God ; not understanding that, although He is the one only God, He must yet be believed in with His own economy.

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica is both a quartet ( primarily performing a new version of the genre they call " third-stream exotica ") and a big band performing the world's only transcriptions of Esquivel's large ensemble music.

Top-level decision-making was in the hands of professional salaried managers, leading Chandler to call the German dye companies " the world's first truly managerial industrial enterprises ".

* August 10-The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.

* 10 August 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long distance telephone call, about 6 miles between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada.

* 1 April 1880: world's first wireless telephone call on Bell and Tainter's photophone ( distant precursor to fiber-optic communications ) from the Franklin School in Washington, D. C. to the window of Bell's laboratory, 213 meters away.

* 7 April 1927: world's first videophone call via an electro-mechanical AT & T unit, from Washington, D. C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.

In March 2008, the treatment of 30-year-old neurofibromatosis victim Pascal Coler of France ended after he received what his doctors call the world's first successful almost full face transplant.

The Brennan torpedo is often claimed as the world's first guided missile, but guided torpedoes invented by John Ericsson, John Louis Lay, and Victor von Scheliha all predate it ; however, Brennan's torpedo was much simpler in its concept and worked over an acceptable range at a satisfactory speed so it might be more accurate to call it " the world's first practical guided missile ".

Throughout his career, Lowe was known for his distinctive bald head, full beard, and considerable belly, and liked to call himself " the world's oldest game designer ".

In all things, from first to last, without halt or change, it was a plain publicity proposition, a vast enterprise in salesmanship, the world's greatest adventures in advertising ... We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

Burroughs described it as the world's oldest music and was the first person to call the musicians a " 4000-year-old rock and roll band ".