First Fire Police serving in Auckland
First breath - Murray Halberg, Olympian, athlete and philanthropist, born July 7th
First Rugby Province in the Land - Canterbury which held the Ranfurly Shield all season
First fire brigades taken over by the new Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board - Mt Eden, Onehunga, Mt Roskill, Mt Albert, Ellerslie and Mt Wellington.
First speech by new President of the USA, Franklin D. Roosevelt, which included the memorable words, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
First move - Adolf Hitler begins his 12-year role as German Chancellor.
First solo flight around the world piloted by Wiley Post taking 7 days, 19 hours, New York- New York
First version of the board game Monopoly is introduced.
First drive-in movie theatre opens in New Jersey, USA, with spaces for 400 cars.
First time Mae West utters her famous words, "Come up and see me sometime"; in the film She Done Him Wrong.
First singing telegrams delivered by crooning delivery men in New York, the novelty picked up by Western Union across the USA - and beyond
First chocolate chip biscuits marketed in the United States
Malcolm Campbell sets land speed record at Daytona with Bluebird reaching 272.46 mph
First drinks for 14 years in the USA, Utah among the last States to end Prohibition.
Michael Joseph Savage First came to power
First woman MP elected in New Zealand, Elizabeth McCombs, Labour, Lyttelton
First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster
First vehicles roll out of Nissan Motor Company factories in Japan
First New Zealand coinage introduced, replacing British legal tender, bank notes followed in 1934
Houseboat, First luxury river craft for tourists, catches fire on the Whanganui River, a total loss. She had 20 bedrooms, each with facilities and electric lights.
First trial shipment of chilled beef sent to London market - a success, a new trade begins.
First sales of Riverhead Gold tobacco, named after the district just North of Auckland where it was grown.
First screenings of the surrealist movie hit King Kong
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