KIMBERLEY: CITY OF FIRSTS
- 1871
THE FIRST Private Postal Delivery Service.
- 1877
THE FIRST professional training of nurses.
- 1875
THE FIRST drive-in bar.
- 1882
THE FIRST city in the Southern Hemisphere to install electric street lighting on 2nd September 1882. The electric lights of Kimberley came on before those of London.
- 1883
THE FIRST Stock Exchange in South Africa.
- 1889
THE FIRST hotel with electricity.
- 1889
THE FIRST to win the Rugby Currie Cup.
- 1911
THE FIRST public flight in the first South African built aircraft.
- 1913
THE FIRST airplane accident.
- 1913
THE FIRST airplane purchased by the South African Government.
- 1913
THE FIRST ten pilots in the South Africa Defence Force.
- 1913
THE FIRST pilots in the South African Aviation Corps.
- 1926
THE FIRST Industrial Council.
- 1928
THE FIRST diamond cutting factory.
- 1929
THE FIRST woman to play tennis without stockings at Wimbledon.
- 1931
THE FIRST official airport safety regulations.
- 1931
THE FIRST airport to install lighting equipment.
- 1931
THE FIRST night landing by a pilot.
- 1931
THE FIRST airport to offer 24 hour services.
- 1932
THE FIRST municipal rest house and aerodrome in Africa.
- 1934
THE FIRST National Air Rally.
- 1936
THE FIRST South African Museums Conference.
- 1936
THE FIRST South Africa Museums Association constituted.
- 1940
THE FIRST female municipal traffic wardens.
- 1954
THE FIRST State School for paraplegics.
- 1954
THE FIRST state school for physically disabled.
- 1965
THE FIRST twelve year old to hold a world record in swimming.
- 1967
THE FIRST Commando Training Unit.
- 1967
THE FIRST nation wide direct dialling telephones.
- 1969
THE FIRST woman judge: Miss Justice Leonora van de Heever.
- 1976
THE FIRST housing scheme, Ipopeng in Galeshewe, for black employees.
- 1977
THE FIRST remote controlled ore trains in underground operations.
- 1980
THE FIRST The first South African to be elected to the world swimming hall of fame – Karen Muir.
- 1983
THE FIRST elected black town council: Galeshewe in South Africa. (30/11/1983).
- 1983
THE FIRST coloured priest to become a bishop.
- 1983
THE FIRST manufacture of self propelled overhead irrigation pivots in South Africa.
- 1992
THE FIRST City Council to amalgamate all group areas..
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