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CNN First Broadcast, 1st June, 1980

The First Aircraft Carrier, 1910

Oldest Working Car for sale, 1884

Last Witness of the Lincoln Assassination, 1865

The Last Surviving Witness of the Lincoln Assassination

First Tour De France, 1903

Last Thylacine, 1933

The Last Thylacine

First TV Interview with Nelson Mandela, 21st May 1961

Mandela’s First TV Interview, 21st May 1961

First Sci-fi Film, 1902

The First Sci-fi Film

First ‘Barbie’ Ad, 1959

The First Barbie Commercial 1959

‘First Video Game’, 1969

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Last film of Laurel & Hardy c.1956

‘First monorail’, 1911

First lap-top, 1981

Last Napoleonic Veterans, 1858

M. Mauban, 8th Dragoon Regiment, 1815

First solar-powered engine

‘First roller-skate’, 1869

Birth of the Roller-skate

‘Oldest wedding cake’, 1898

First Christmas Card, 1843

First Christmas card

‘First SUV’, 1946

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‘First portable compact-disk player’, 1967

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First motorcycle, 1885

Vintage Motorcycle Photographs

‘First motion picture’, 1888

“The first motion picture”, 1888

Last known photograph of Lennon and McCartney, 1974

Lennon and McCartney, March 1974

‘First photograph’ of New York, 1848

15 World's Firsts

World's First X-Ray (1895) - Röntgen's wife hand

First fake photographs, c.1860

In this photo by Mathew Brady, General Sherman is seen posing with his Generals. General Francis P. Blair (far right) was added to the original photograph.

Oldest living things

Sentinel Tree (2,150 years old; Sequoia National Park, California)

First music video, 1895

The first music video, 1895

‘First colour video’, 1958

The “first colour video”

First photograph of a human, c.1838

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Recording of Pope Leo XIII, 1903

London’s oldest statue, c.1372

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