The earliest FBI gambilng investigation within a virtual world took place in April 2007 when it was reported that the FBI had visited in-game casinos in Second Life. It was legally unclear whether or not betting with Linden dollars, which can be exchanged for real world money, was in violation of gambling laws. The three largest poker casinos reportedly were earning around $1,500 per month.
The first time in NBA history a father coaching one team faced his son playing for another was when New York Nets (USA) rookie Jan Van Breda Kolff (USA) produced six points and four rebounds against the Utah Jazz (USA), coached by his father, Butch Van Breda Kolff (USA), on 9 November 1976. The only other NBA father-versus-son combination is between Los Angeles Clippers (USA) coach Mike Dunleavy Sr. (USA) and Golden State Warriors (USA) forward Mike Jr. (USA) The Dunleavys have faced one another
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Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was killed on 24 April 1967 during his second spaceflight on the Soyuz 1 mission. Upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, the parachute lines of his spacecraft tangled and the parachute failed to open. Komarov was killed instantly as Soyuz 1 impacted the ground in Russia.
The earliest feature length talkie was Alan Crossland’s (USA) The Jazz Singer (USA 1927), which premiered on Broadway on 6 October 1927. Warner Bros.intended the sound to be confined to music and songs, but Al Jolson (USA) ad-libbed some speech, which led to 354 words spoken in all:- 340 by Jolson, 13 by Eugenie Besserer (USA), who played his mum and one by Warner Oland (Sweden), his dad – `Stop!’.
The world’s first full-length feature film was The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1906. Produced on a budget of £450 (then US$2185.65), this biopic of the notorious armoured bushranger Ned Kelly (1855-80) ran for 60-70 minutes and opened at the Melbourne Town Hall on 26 December 1906. It was produced by the local theatrical company J. and N. Tait.
In June 2000, scientists announced their discovery of a 220 million-year-old fossilised animal. The animal, named Longisquama Insignis, had appendages on its back which were hollow and had other characteristics which are seen today in birds’ feathers. This creature probably used its primitive feathers to glide between trees 75 million years before the first birds evolved. The fossil was originally discovered by a Russian palaeoentomologist in the late 1960s but it was not until it became part of a travelling Russian dinosaur exhibit in the
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The first Female Action Character to front her own show was cowgirl Annie Oakley in the western series Annie Oakley (US 1954-57) a syndicated show starring real-life trick-shot Gail Davis as the sharpshooter from the Buffalo Bill travelling show.
Rihanna is the first female artist to have UK No.1 singles in five consecutive years (2007–11).
Born on 21 March 1913, Sabiha Gökçen, one of the adopted daughters of Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, founder and first President of Turkey, enrolled in the Military Aviation Academy in Eskisehir in 1936 and undertook training at the First Aircraft Regiment there. She flew fighter and bomber planes becoming the first Turkish, female aviator and the world´s first, female, combat pilot. During her flying career, she achieved some 8,000 hours, 32 of which were combat missions.
First Female Detective (ie paid investigator not amateur sleuth) to front her own show was Stacey Smith (played by Hattie Jaques) in the UK series Miss Adventure (UK ABC 1964).