What happened first in Britain and Ireland in May? 1
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1611 Authorised King James Version of the Bible published.1923 First 'Woman's Hour' broadcast on BBC Radio.
1952 First jet passenger service begins between London and Johannesburg in South Africa.
3rd
1788 FIrst daily evening newspaper, the Star and Evening Advertiser, published in London.4th
1896 First edition of The Daily Mail published.1926 First General Strike in British history begins.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister and remains in office for 11 years to become the longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th century.
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1760 First public hanging takes place at Tyburn in London when Earl Ferrers is executed after being convicted of murdering his valet.1930 Amy Johnson takes off from Croydon aboard her Gypsy Moth plane 'Jason', at the start of her historic flight to become the first woman to fly solo to Australia - she arrives on May 24th.
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1840 The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, is issued by the Post Office.7th
1663 The first Theatre Royal in London's Drury Lane, opens.8th
1662 First recorded Punch & Judy Show in Britain performed under the portico of St Paul's, Covent Garden.1956 The first 'kitchen sink' drama, John Osborne's 'Look Back In Anger' debuts at London's Royal Court Theatre.
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1896 The first Horseless Carriage Show opens when 10 engine-powered models go on show at the Imperial Institute in London.1949 Britain's first self-service launderette opens at 184 Queensway in London.
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1922 Dr Ivy Williams of Oxford becomes the first English woman called to the bar.11th
1964 Terence Conran opens his first Habitat Shop in London's Fulham Road.12th
1937 The Coronation of King George VI of England at Westminster Abbey in London, is filmed for the BBC's first outside television broadcast.13th
1607 Captain John Smith lands on the coast of Virginia and begins the first permanent English settlement in the New World, calling it Jamestown.1787 The first fleet carrying convicts to the new penal colony of Australia leaves England. They arrive in January 1788.
1949 First British jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its first test flight.
1957 BBC begins regular television schools programmes.
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1796 Edward Jenner of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, carries out the first official vaccination, successfully inoculating an eight-year old boy, James Phipps against smallpox.1842 Illustrated London News first published.
1847 HMS Driver becomes the first steamship to circumnavigate the world when it arrives at Spithead off the Isle of Wight.
