Example sentences of "[noun] [num] become the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 January 1948 , car 10 became the first modern car in regular service on the Marton route , fitted with upholstered seats and fluorescent lighting . |
| 2 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 3 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 4 | Karelia on Aug. 10 became the first of the Soviet Union 's 20 autonomous Soviet Socialist republics ( ASSRs ) to issue a sovereignty declaration . |
| 5 | The Liberals on Aug. 11 became the first to merge their West and East German organizations , forming a joint party known as " FDP-the Liberals " at a party congress in Hannover . |
| 6 | Todor Zhivkov on Feb. 25 became the first of Eastern Europe 's ousted communist leaders to go on public trial , 14 months after the " palace coup " which had ended his 35 years in power . |
| 7 | Emperor Akihito on Oct. 23 became the first Japanese monarch to visit China , and the highest-ranking foreigner to visit China since the 1989 suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square . |
| 8 | On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite . |