This year, for the first time, children born between minorities -- mostly Hispanic-born children -- outnumbered the white newborns.
For the first time Jamaican born women had a higher directly age-standardised CHD death rate than those born in England and Wales.
But this isn't the first time the "Born This Way" singer has referenced wheelchair disabilities in her concerts or music videos.
"The first time was being born," she said.
Like Zinédine Zidane, the 19-year-old who joined the France squad for the first time this week was born in Marseille to a family of Algerian extract.
Leading the pack for the first time is Ukrainian born petro-billionaire Len Blavatnik, whose London address is a £41m residence in Kensington Palace Gardens.
The seismic shift that happened in these few years was that these HIV-positive babies were, for the first time ever, being born into a world where they were able not just to survive, but to thrive.
Macfarlane recalls the "crackling thrill" he felt on reading the novel for the first time, a tremor born both of its disobedience to genre, and of his "spreading disbelief" that one mind could have dreamed it all up.
The 7 May election is the first time that those born after the end of apartheid will be able to vote nationally.
All seven Standing Committee members are men in their 60s and, for the first time, none was born before China's 1949 Communist revolution.
