World's first James Bond Movie: Dr. No

Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that would continue until 1975.

In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American manned space launch with a radio beam weapon. 

Although the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was produced on a low budget and was a financial success. While critical reaction was mixed upon release, over time the film has gained a reputation as one of the series' best instalments. The film was the first of a successful series of 23 Bond films. Dr. No also launched a genre of "secret agent" films that flourished in the 1960s. The film also spawned a spin-off comic book and soundtrack album as part of its promotion and marketing. (Wikipedia)

World's first women cricketer to be given retired out

“In cricket, a batsman retires out if he retires without the umpire's permission, and does not have the permission of the opposition captain to resume his innings. This occasionally happens in friendly or practice matches, for instance English county sides against University Centres of Cricketing Excellence. Although it is not considered to be a dismissal in the context of a cricket match, it is considered a dismissal for the purposes of calculating a batting average.” (Wikipedia)

In International Women's cricket, the only instance of an unusual dismissal came in a One Day International match between Sri Lanka and the West Indies in April 2010. Sri Lanka wicket-keeper Dilani Manodara was retired out due to her slow scoring rate in her team's first innings, having taken 70 minutes and 39 balls to score 8 runs.

World's First ATM

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A girl puts her computer punch card into the slot of a money machine outside the Westminster Bank in Charring Cross, London, on Jan. 19, 1968

It might just be the best idea to come to a man in the bathtub since Archimedes' time. While taking a soak, inventor John Shepherd-Barron devised what is hailed as the world's first automatic teller machine, although his claim to the title is a matter of dispute. He pitched the device to the British bank Barclays. It accepted immediately, and the first model was built and installed in London in 1967. Though the machine used PIN (personal identification number) codes, a concept Shepherd-Barron also claims to have invented, it was dependent on checks impregnated with the (slightly) radioactive isotope carbon 14 to initiate a withdrawal, as the magnetic coding for ATM cards had not yet been developed. One other difference from its ubiquitous modern counterpart: it didn't charge a fee.

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Lina Medina : Youngest mother in medical history

Lina Medina is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 17 days. She currently lives in Lima, the capital of Peru.
Medina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of five years due to increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, before the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Medina was pregnant.

Medina's son weighed 2.7 kg at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Medina was his sister, but found out at the age of 10 that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a bone marrow disease.

Later life: Medina has never revealed the father of the child nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Dr. Escomel suggested she might not actually know herself by writing that Medina "couldn't give precise responses".

Although Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse, he was later released due to lack of evidence, and the biological father who impregnated Lina was never identified. Additionally, there was no explanation of how a five-year-old girl could conceive a child.

In young adulthood, she worked as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Dr. Lozada, who gave her an education and helped put her son through high school. Medina later married Raúl Jurado, who fathered her second son in 1972. As of 2002, they lived in a poor district of Lima known as "Chicago Chico" ("Little Chicago"). She refused an interview with Reuters that year,just as she had turned away many reporters in years past.

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World's first film with a single actor

Malayalam film 'The Gaurd' released in 2001 is the first film with a single actor. Actor Kalabhavan Mani is the lone actor in the film who plays the role of a forest guard. 

Hakim Rawther had written and directed the movie. Jointly produced by Sabitha Jayaraj and Kerela State Film Development Corporation. 

The film had 7 songs sung by the actor himself. Despite that it failed to get the entry at the Guinness World Records. 


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World's First "Talking Stamp"

Bhutan released the world's first "talking stamp" in April 1973. It's a tiny vinyl record, that when played at 78 rpm, the Bhutanese national anthem and a brief history of this country.

World's First Male Mother

Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man in Oregon after surgery and hormone treatment, was the first man to become a mother. Beatie, 34, who is legally a man but kept female reproductive organs when he had a sex-change operation 10 years ago, made headlines around the world and was dubbed the "pregnant man" before giving birth to a baby girl on June 29. After giving birth he did not go back on the male hormone testosterone that he took after his sex change, because he wanted to have another baby. Beatie's wife, Nancy, 46, whom he married five years ago, was unable to conceive because of a prior hysterectomy. That is why he had a baby himself, through artificial insemination using donor sperm and Beatie's own egg.

A file photo of Thomas Beatie when she was a woman.(Source: ic.eastday.com, File Photo)

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World's first commercial GSM call

Harri Holkeri

The world's first commercial GSM call was made on July 1, 1991 in Helsinki, Finland over a Nokia-supplied network, by then Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a prototype Nokia GSM phone.

WORLD'S FIRST TREE MAN

32 year old Dede Kosawa, also known as 'Tree Man', is one of the world's most extraordinary people. He lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an incredible skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.

He is known locally as ‘Tree Man’ and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his 'Tree Man' limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows.

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World's first full-face replant operation

 Sandeep Kaur before the accident

The world's first full-face replant operation was on nine year-old Sandeep Kaur, whose face was ripped off when her hair was caught in a thresher. Sandeep's mother witnessed the accident. Sandeep arrived at the hospital unconscious with her face in two pieces in a plastic bag. An article in the The Guardian recounts: "In 1994, a nine-year-old child in northern India lost her face and scalp in a threshing machine accident.

Her parents raced to the hospital with her face in a plastic bag and a surgeon managed to reconnect the arteries and replant the skin." The operation was successful, although the child was left with some muscle damage as well as scarring around the perimeter where the facial skin was sutured back on. Sandeep's doctor was Abraham Thomas, one of India's top microsurgeons. In 2004, Sandeep was training to be a nurse.

Sandeep Kaur's face arrived in two pieces at a hospital in India where it was replanted onto her skull 10 years ago. "Looking at it, I said: 'Is it possible to do anything at all?'" said Sandeep's doctor, Abraham Thomas, one of India's top microsurgeons, who was on duty when Sandeep arrived at the hospital unconscious with her face in a plastic bag. "It was actually quite a frightening sight," said Dr. Thomas. "The first response was 'Oh my, God, I cannot do that (reattach her face).'" 

 

 Sandeep Kaur after her groundbreaking face replant. 

Although they didn't realize it at the time, 

Sandeep's doctors were making history. 

Sandeep's operation is considered the world's first full-face replant.

Sandeep Kaur aged 19, 10 years after the accident that 

ripped off her face and nearly claimed her life. Today, 

Sandeep is training to be a nurse. 

Says Sandeep: "I think God had to have sent Dr. Thomas. 

It was such a big tragedy.

" Her miraculous surgery has begged the question:

If it's possible to attach one's own torn-off face, is it possible to transplant a face? 

 source: health.discovery.com / en.wikipedia.org

World's First TV Commercial

Continuing its tradition of advertising firsts, Bulova airs the first television commercial: a simple picture of a clock and a map of the United States, with a voice-over proclaiming, "America runs on Bulova time." The 20-second spot costs $9. 1941 also marks the year that the Bulova Board of Directors, chaired by Joseph’s son, Ardé Bulova, adopts a resolution to sell products for national defense at actual cost. Throughout World War II, having perfected the skill of creating precision timepieces, Bulova works with the U.S. government to produce military watches, specialized timepieces, aircraft instruments, critical torpedo mechanisms and fuses. 

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The World's First Production Car (1894)

Excursion from Mannheim via Schriesheim to Grossachsen along a scenic road in the Palatinate in 1895. The daughters of Carl Benz, Klara and Thilde, are seated in the first car, a Benz Velo. His son Richard, who was doing military service at the time, can be made out in the second car, a Benz Phaeton. The other passengers are relatives of the Benz family.

 

Karl Benz played a prominent role in promoting the development of the automobile. Some 25 units of the Benz Patent Motor Car of 1886 – the world's first automobile – were built. It goes without saying that Benz knew that a four-wheeled car would have greater cornering stability, however, he found the steering systems used for carriages at the time to be unsuitable for his purposes. He solved the problem – and filed a patent for his double-pivot steering (DRP 73515) in 1893. He installed it in the same year in his four-wheeled Victoria model. However, he had a lighter car in mind. At the World Exposition in Chicago (May 1 – October 31, 1893), Benz finally presented his Velocipede to the public. It was to become the world's first car from large-scale production and at the same time the first small car. Benz produced more than 1,200 units of this car between 1894 and 1902.

The Benz Velo of 1894 was the world's first large-scale production car.

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WORLD'S FIRST POLYMER NOTE

Information on tyvek notes is still being researched & collated. Trial notes were done for Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela. American Bank Note Co. (ABNC) had the contract to produce paper notes for these countries. In the early 1980's it joined forces with Dupont to produce a more durable banknote. A commercial plastic material produced by Dupont - Tyvek- was used to produce these trial notes. ABNC had the printing plates and simply fed tyvek sheets through the printing presses instead of paper sheets.

It is not known whether it sought the permission of the respective central banks to do so (or indeed if it was required to do so) but it undoubtedly approached the particular banks with the so produced trials and set out to interest them in tyvek notes.

Costa Rica and Haiti agreed to a tyvek note issue. Haiti's notes are undated  produced under the law of 1979  but they are believed to have issued sometime in 1982. See below for more detail. Costa Rica's only issued tyvek note is dated 28.06.1983 which is most likely the date that the printing order was placed. The Haiti issue is understood to have lasted about 15 to 18 months. Apparently the inks did not bind to the tyvek successfully and in the humid tropical climate it came unstuck, smudging badly. It is presumed that Costa Rica's notes met a similar fate.

Some of the trials are also dated and this helps to pin point the time that ABNC embarked on this process in the early 1980's. For example, the El Salvador 5 Colones trial is dated 19 de Junio de 1980 which coincides with the date on P132A according to SCWPM. The trial also bears the date on the back of 10 de Diciembre de 1980

At the time, the British printer Bradbury Wilkinson was a subsidiary of ABNC and it secured a contract to print a One Pound note for the Isle of Man on tyvek. There was some form of technology transfer agreement and under this the tyvek was actually called Bradvek. The first notes appeared in 1983. These were not popular and a subsequent sale of Bradbury's by ABNC to Thomas De La Rue saw the end of the technology agreement and the cessation of the issue by the Isle of Man in 1988.

Wikipedia says : " In 1982 and 1983, the American Bank Note Company printed banknotes for Costa Rica (20 colones dated 1983 and trial notes of 100 colones) and Haiti (1, 2, 50, 100, 250 and 500 Gourdes, on DuPont's Tyvek polymers. These had fairly limited release, but did circulate in each country. Additional trial and specimen banknotes were developed for Honduras, Ecuador and El Salvador. Unfortunately, in tropical climates, ink did not bind well to the polymer and the notes began smearing quite badly. "

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