914 results for “The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa” — type: selected (1257 ms)
The Blackpool Illuminations (example pictured) in the English seaside town of Blackpool were switched on for the first time.
Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard.
Hurricane Irene (satellite image pictured) moved into the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic, making it the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to do so.
The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.
J. S. Bach led the first performance of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, a solo cantata for alto voice.
The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.
The Soviet Union's Zond 5 landed in the Indian Ocean, becoming the first spacecraft to safely return to Earth after travelling around the Moon.
The first section of Interstate 80 in Iowa opened in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
The first section of Interstate 80 in Iowa (pictured) opened in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by the Mozilla Organization.
U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech, one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.
Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.
Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.
American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.