· The first company that Bill Gates ever ran created machines that would record the number of cars passing a given point on a street.
· The first personal computer was called the Altair and was made by a company called MITS in 1974. It came in a kit and had to be assembled by the user.
· The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland.
· The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
· 26 December, Boxing day, was traditionally known as St. Stephen's Day, after the first Christian martyr.
· The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531.
· Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, and they're the only nation today that doesn't use a national name on their stamps.
· The Chinese first invented the system of zoos, and called them Parks of Intelligence.
· The first striptease dance was performed in Paris, France on March 13, 1894.
· The first time the color khaki was used for uniforms in a war was in 1880, during the Afghan War.
· Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring.
· The term skyscraper was first used in 1888, to describe 11-story building.
· Benjamin Franklin was America's first newspaper cartoonist.
· When tennis was first invented in 1874, it was called sphairistike.
· When volleyball was first invented in 1895, it was called mintonette.
· The first animal in space was a female dog named "Laika".
· The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes.
· China was the first country to introduce paper money (in 812).
· The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
· The first Academy Awards (or Oscar's) were presented on 16 May 1929.
· Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.
· In 1937, the first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria.
· The first recorded reference to cricket dates back to 1272.
· The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com in Mar 85.
· The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
· The first police force was established in Paris 1667.
· The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
· France became the first reigning World Cup champions who fail to win a match.
· Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.
Contributed by asharaj53 @ gmail.com
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