Cape Cod was first settled by Native Americans some 8, 000 years ago.
In 1962, Telstar, the first television telecommunications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, making possible the first relaying of television programs across the Atlantic.
Uruguay's appearance in the semi-final in Cape Town was their first in the last four of a World Cup since 1970 - after winning the tournament in 1930 and 1950.
Knowing we'd be turning our backs on civilization, we first visited Cape Lodge near the Margaret River (see box, p. 172) to soak up as much five-star nourishment as we could.
Knowing we'd be turning our backs on civilization, we first visited Cape Lodge near the Margaret River (see " A Taste of Luxury") to soak up as much five-star nourishment as we could.
Mark Vecchione of Eastham, Massachusetts became the first soldier from Cape Cod to die in combat in Iraq.
In 1966, Orbiter 1 was launched from Cape Kennedy and became the first spacecraft to transmit Lunar photographs of possible landing sites.
The Cape Verde international was promoted to first-choice keeper after spending last season as back-up to Jon Brain who is now with Walsall.
While Mali will seek to reach the semifinals for the second tournament in a row against Bafana Bafana in Durban, Ghana will face high fliers Cape Verde in Saturday's first quarterfinal.
The 2008-09 competitors begin their quest in the 6, 500-mile first leg between Alicante and Cape Town in South Africa.
In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant operation in Cape Town on Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days.
In 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama became the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.
Since the Black Stars beat the Cape Verde Islands to qualify for their first ever World Cup finals, there has been no shortage of people offering to 'help' the national team in all sorts of ways.
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The company is speculating that the ship may be linked to Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, who went missing in 1500 after becoming the first European seafarer to round the Cape of Good Hope.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Cricket Board's director Munawwar Rana said the suggestion had come up for the first time during the ICC's Cape Town meeting in March this year.
Like many other mom-and-pop ISPs, Cape.com had its beginnings in 1995 when the first great Internet wave was cresting.
In 1962, Britain's first satellite, Ariel I, was launched from Cape Canaveral by a Thor-Delta booster.
This year Cape Town had to prepare for its biggest party since the first democratic elections of 1994.
He spent the first 18 years at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town, South Africa, and later spent time at Pollsmoor prison and Victor Verster Prison, closer to the mainland.
It is also the worst bombing spree, outside of Cape Town, since one by white right wingers ahead of the first all-race elections in 1994.
Igesund has already won the league with three different teams and this season Ajax Cape Town are well-placed to win the league for the first time in their history.
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Other aid recipients include Staten Island's Metropolitan Fire Association, which offers programs to train teens in firefighting and first aid, and Jewish Family Service of Atlantic and Cape May Counties in New Jersey.
The First Lady and Archbishop Tutu also participated with kids from across Cape Town in a soccer clinic that got everyone moving.
She is set to take over as mayor of Cape Town, the country's biggest city, where for the first time the DA won a majority of the vote.
On the first day of the competition, Mr. Dyantyi, the Cape Town-based driver who cried out as a taxi flew past him, had just successfully navigated a series of tight weaves and 90-degree reverse-turns through a maze of orange cones.
South Africa won the first game of the two-match series by eight wickets in Cape Town.
When Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape, it inaugurated a tradition for the spy hero: individualistic, unconcerned with class and handy with a deadly weapon, within a society that would attach this image to many sides of what we know as the Cold War.
In 1958, the first U.S. Earth satellite, Explorer I, was launched at Cape Canaveral.
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