- List of firsts
This is a list of the first man/woman/object etc., to do something or the first occurrence of an event.
Government
Laws and Constitution
*First law written in cuneiform - by
Urukagina 2350 BC
*First written Constitution-- the oldest modern, national, codified constitution in the world, Sumeria, ca 2300 BCLeaders
from Antiquity to the 17th Century
* First
Emperor of :Qin Shi Huang (ca. 221 BC)
* FirstEmperor of Ancient Rome: Augustus (ca. 27 BC)* First Bishop of Rome to condemn heresy: Anicetus, by forbidding
Montanism , also actively opposed theGnostics andMarcionism
* First Bishop of Rome to be called "Pope ": Siricius
* Firstantipope : Hippolytus (d. 235)
* First pope to adopt aregnal name :Pope John II (b. "Mercurius"; d. 535)
* FirstTsar (Tzar):Simeon I of Bulgaria (913)
*FirstChristian Monarch ofSweden : Olof Skötkonung (995)18th Century onwards
* First "de facto" Prime Minister of Great Britain:
Robert Walpole (1721)
* First official Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:William Pitt the Younger (first term, 1783-1801)
* First President ofChile :Manuel Blanco Encalada . (1826)
* FirstPrime Minister of Canada : Sir John A. Macdonald (elected 1867)
* FirstPrime Minister of Sweden : Louis De Geer (1876)
* FirstPrime Minister of Australia :Edmund Barton 1901
* First woman elected to theBritish House of Commons :Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz , December 1918 General Election (did not take her seat) [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/m04.pdf]
* First woman to take a seat in the House of Commons:Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor , by-election,28 November 1919 [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/m04.pdf]
* First female Acting President::*Unofficial:Edith Bolling Galt Wilson ,United States (1919):*Official:Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa ,Mongolia (1953)
* First non-royal femalehead of state : ChairmanKhertek Anchimaa-Toka ,Tuvinian People's Republic (1940)
* First female Prime Minister:Sirimavo Bandaranaike ofSri Lanka (1960)
* First woman with the title of President:Isabel Perón
* First femalePrime Minister of theUnited Kingdom :Margaret Thatcher (1979)
* First democratically elected female head of state:Vigdís Finnbogadóttir ,President of Iceland (1980)
* First President ofSlovenia : Milan Kučan. (1990)
* First blackPresident ofSouth Africa :Nelson Mandela . (1994)* First female head of state elected in
Africa :Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf asPresident of Liberia (16 January ,2006 )
* First female President ofChile :Michelle Bachelet (2006)
* First female President ofIndia : Smt.Pratibha Patil electedJuly 25 ,2007 in Canada
*First Prime Minister to die in office:
Sir John A. Macdonald ,3rd Canadian Ministry (d.6 June ,1891 )
*First Prime Minister born in Canada: Sir John Abbott (b. St-Andre-Est, Lower Canada,12 March 1821 ; elected 1891)
*FirstFrench-Canadian Prime Minister: Sir Wilfrid Laurier (elected 1896)
*First Prime Minister born in theDominion of Canada (after Confederation):Arthur Meighen (b.Anderson, Ontario ,16 June ,1874 )
*First Canadian-bornGovernor General of Canada :Vincent Massey (appointed 1952)
*FirstFrench-Canadian Governor General:Georges Vanier (appointed 1959)
*First female Governor General:Jeanne Sauvé (appointed 1984)
*First female Prime Minister:Kim Campbell (appointed 1993)
*Firstvisible minority :Adrienne Clarkson (appointed 1999)
*First Prime Minister born a Canadian citizen: Kim Campbell (b.10 March ,1947 )Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
*First female
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada :Beverley McLachlin (appointed 2000)
*First female Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada:Bertha Wilson (appointed 1982)in the United States of America
: "See main article
List of firsts in the United States "Crime and Punishment
* First recorded victim of the punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering:
Dafydd ap Gruffydd .October 3 ,1283
* First person to be executed by theguillotine :Nicolas J. Pelletier ,highwayman .April 25 ,1792
* First death byelectric chair :William Kemmler , 1890.
* First instance of a murder captured live on television:Jack Ruby killingLee Harvey Oswald .November 24 ,1963 . "(See )".
* Firstcommercial airliner to be hijacked : "Miss Macao ", owned byCathay Pacific , on a flight fromMacau toHong Kong ,16 July ,1948 ociety and economy
* First
banknote : Issued by Stockholm Banco, Sweden, in 1661.
* Firstcentral bank :Sveriges Riksbank , Sweden, founded in 1668 from Stockholm Banco.
* Firstcivil union between a same-sex couple:Axel and Eigil Axgil , Denmark in 1989.
* Firstsame-sex marriage s: Four couples in Amsterdam, The Netherlands onApril 1 ,2001 .War
* First battle between ironclads:
Battle of Hampton Roads ,March 8 ,1862 .
* First bomb dropped from aircraft: By Italian army in Libya,November 1 ,1911 .
* Firsttank in combat: BritishMark I tank on September 15 1916.
* Firsthydrogen bomb tested:Ivy Mike , onEnewatak in thePacific Ocean onNovember 1 ,1952 .Travel and Exploration
: "See also
List of circumnavigations ."
* First crossing of theAtlantic Ocean :Leif Ericson , around 1010
* First crossing of thePacific Ocean :Ferdinand Magellan , 1520-21.
* First people to reach theSouth Pole :Roald Amundsen and his party -Olav Bjaaland ,Helmer Hanssen ,Sverre Hassel , andOscar Wisting .December 14 ,1911
* First (and only,as of 2008 ) people to reach the deepest point on the surface of the earth, theChallenger Deep in theMariana Trench ,Pacific Ocean :Jacques Piccard and LieutenantDon Walsh on theBathyscaphe Trieste .January 23 ,1960
* First people to scaleK2 , the world's second-highest peak: Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni of the party led by Ardito Desio and Mario Puchoz.July 29 ,1954
* First mother and son to row any ocean:Janice Meek andDaniel Byles , (1998)
*First Shipwreck: "seeoldest shipwreck "Rail transport
* First steam-powered vehicle: Built by
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769.
* First railwaysteam locomotive : Built byRichard Trevithick in 1804.
* First commercial locomotive:The Salamanca , built in 1812 (onrack railway ).
* First commercial locomotive on plain rail: Puffing Billy, 1813.
* First public steam-powered railway line:Stockton and Darlington Railway , 1825.
* First inter-city steam-powered railway:Liverpool and Manchester Railway , 1830.
* First underground railway:Metropolitan Railway , completed in 1863.
* First publicelectric railway : Germany, 1881.
* First electric underground railway:City and South London Railway , 1890.
* Firstdiesel-electric locomotive : Built byGeneral Electric in 1917.Aviation
* First person in flight:
Bartolomeu de Gusmão in a balloon filled with heated air at the hall of the Casa da India inLisbon .August 8 ,1709 . (However, this claim is not generally recognized by aviation historians outside the Portuguese speaking community, in particular the FAI.)
* First recorded manned flight: In a hot air balloon built by theMontgolfier brothers and piloted byJean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Francois Laurent (the Marquis of d'Arlanders), from theChâteau de la Muette to theButte-aux-Cailles ,Paris .November 21 1783 .
* First aviation disaster: When the town ofTullamore ,County Offaly ,Ireland was seriously damaged when the crash of a balloon resulted in a fire that burned down about 100 houses. May 1785.
* First victims of an air crash:Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain, when theirRozière balloon deflated and crashed to the ground nearWimereux in thePas-de-Calais .15 June 1785 .
* First person to die in a crash of a powered airplane:Thomas Selfridge .September 17 ,1908
* First people to reach thestratosphere :Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer in a balloon.May 27 ,1931 .
* First non-stop flight around the Earth:Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, fromChâteau d'Oex ,Switzerland toEgypt , on board the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3. BetweenMarch 1 ,1999 andMarch 20 ,1999 , taking a total time of 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes.
* First solo non-stop flight around the Earth:Steve Fossett — fromNortham ,Western Australia toQueensland ,Australia , on a 10-story high balloon "Spirit of Freedom". BetweenJune 19 ,2002 andJuly 3 ,2002 , taking a total time of 13 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes.
* First non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight around the Earth:Steve Fossett — fromSalina, Kansas eastbound and back, on aVirgin Atlantic Global Flyer . BetweenFebruary 28 ,2005 andMarch 3 ,2005 , taking a total time of 67 hours, 1 minute, 10 second.
* First non-stop trans-Atlantic flight:Alcock and Brown — St. John's, Newfoundland to a bog nearClifden ,Ireland , 14-15 June, 1919
* First trans-Pacific solo flight in a balloon:Steve Fossett — fromSouth Korea to Leader,Saskatchewan ,Canada .February 21 ,1995
* First gas balloon flight: ProfessorJacques Charles and Nicholas Louis Robert, in a hydrogen-filled balloon, fromParis toNesle December 1 1783 .
* First flight in an engine-driven airship:Alberto Santos Dumont in a balloon powered by aninternal combustion engine . 1898.
* First flight across theEnglish Channel :Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries, in a balloon.January 7 1785 .Geographic North Pole
* First to reach the Geographic
North Pole (disputed): there are two claimants,Frederick Cook , accompanied by two Inuit men, Ahwelah and Etukishook, onApril 21 ,1908 andRobert Edwin Peary and his employeeMatthew Henson and four Inuit men Ootah,Seegloo , Egingway, and Ooqueah onApril 9 ,1909 . Neither claim is widely accepted today.
* First to fly over the North Pole (disputed): OnMay 9 ,1926 , AmericansRichard E. Byrd and pilotFloyd Bennett claimed a successful flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F-VII Tri-motor called the "Josephine Ford". This claim, widely accepted at first, has been credibly challenged since.
* First to fly over the North Pole (accepted): OnMay 12 , three days after the Byrd flight, NorwegianRoald Amundsen and his American sponsorLincoln Ellsworth flew over the Pole in thesemi-rigid airship "Norge", designed and piloted by ItalianUmberto Nobile .
* First people to reach it: Aleksandr Kuznetsov (Soviet Union) and others, landed by plane,April 23 ,1948 - a better claim than Lt. Col.Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt.William P. Benedict , who landed their plane onMay 3 ,1952
* First naval vessel to reach it: theUSS Nautilus (SSN-571) .August 3 ,1958
* First to reach the North Pole by surface travel: team led by SirWally Herbert . 1968-69
* First (confirmed) surface conquest:Ralph Plaisted .April 19 ,1968
* First confirmed expedition to reach theNorth Pole without resupply:Will Steger International Polar Expedition.May 1 ,1986 . Team members were: Paul Schurke, Brent Boddy,Richard Weber , Geoff Carroll,Ann Bancroft and a team of 21 dogs. Brent Boddy &Richard Weber became the first Canadians to reach the North Pole on foot whileAnn Bancroft became the first woman to trek to the Pole.
* First surface crossing of theArctic Ocean on skis: Polar Bridge expedition, 1988, the Soviet-Canadian transpolar ski expedition that crossed 1800 kilometres ofArctic Ocean from NorthernSiberia to Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve in Canada, via theNorth Pole . First surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean on skis.Richard Weber (Canadian team leader) became the first person to reach the North Pole from both sides of theArctic Ocean .
* First hot air balloon flight launched from theNorth Pole : Global Concern Expedition lead byRichard Weber . 1989
* First attempt to journey to theNorth Pole and return using only human resources: 1992 Weber Malakhov Expedition.Richard Weber and Mikhail (Misha) Malakhov departed from Ward Hunt onMarch 13 . Eighty-five days later, onJune 14 , they reached 89 degrees 39. With only 39 kilometers short of the Pole, they had to make the decision to turn back if they wanted to have any hope of returning to Ward Hunt. OnJune 21 , due to the lack of ice, they were picked up by an airplane and brought back to safety.
* First commercialNorth Pole Expedition: Weber Malakhov North Pole Dash.1993Richard Weber and Dr. Mikhail (Misha) Malakhov pioneered the first commercial North Pole expedition. Today numerous companies take more than 100 people annually to the Pole.
* First confirmed journey to theNorth Pole and return using only human resources: 1995 Weber Malakhov Expedition.Richard Weber and Dr. Mikhail (Misha) Malakhov became the first to reach the North Pole and return to their starting point on land (Ward Hunt,Canada ), with no outside help, no dogs, air planes, or re-supplies. They departed Ward Hunt onFebruary 14 and reached the Pole eighty one days later, onMay 12 . OnJune 15 , they were back at Ward Hunt establishing a record of 108 days for the longest unsupported polar journey. They are the only people to have reached the Pole four times.
* First time that an all women group has reached the pole from a Russian based departure: Women Quest 2001 guided by Josée Auclair. April 2001.
* First persons to reach theNorth Pole during the Arctic winter:Borge Ousland andMike Horn .March 23 ,2006
* First reigning monarch to reach it:Albert II, Prince of Monaco .Easter Sunday,16 April ,2006
* First expedition to reach theNorth Pole onsnowshoe s exclusively:April 26 ,2006 North Pole Classic.Richard Weber guided Conrad Dickinson to the North Pole with no re-supplies. This wasRichard Weber ’s fifth full North Pole expedition. He has trekked to the North Pole more than anyone in history.
* On21 February 2007 HRH Prince Edward announced the first British Army Expedition the Geographic North Pole, to be led by Captain Andrew Cooney (the youngest person to walk to the South Pole) www.northpole08.com.
*First to dive to geographic North Pole sea bottom:Arktika 2007 expedition onAugust 2 ,2007 , by twoMIR submarine s. Crew members were:Arthur Chilingarov ,Anatoly Sagalevich andVladimir Gruzdev on MIR-1; Yevgeny Chernyaev, Mike McDowell and Frederik Paulsen on MIR-2.
* First American morning news show to reach the North Pole:Today show reached byMatt Lauer Magnetic North Pole
* First woman to reach the
magnetic North Pole solo:Helen Thayer (1988)
* First mother and son to reach any Pole by foot:Janice Meek andDaniel Byles , (2007)
* First expedition to reach the Magnetic North Pole by automobile:Jeremy Clarkson andJames May , (2007) as shown on a special episode ofBBC 's Top Gear where the two presenters reached the Pole in aToyota Hilux pickup truck, specially modified byArctic Trucks inIceland . The two were accompanied by seven others, including the camera and sound crew, twoIceland ic mechanics (Hjalti Hjaltason andHaraldur Pétursson ), and a soldier of unstated nationality in two other specially modified vehicles.Mount Everest
*First recorded deaths on
Mount Everest : 7Sherpas die in avalanche in 1922
*First successful summit (via the South-East Ridge Route)Tenzing Norgay & SirEdmund Hillary 29 May 1953
*First successful summit via the North Ridge by a Chinese team on25 May 1960
*First ascent of the West Ridge on22 May 1963 Willi Unsoeld andTom Hornbein . Also the first traverse of the South East Ridge
*First person to summit Everest twice:Nawang Gombu Sherpa (20 May 1965 )
*First woman to summit isJunko Tabei ofJapan (16 May 1975 ) via the South-East Ridge
*First woman to summit from the North (Tibet an) side is a Tibetan woman named Phantog
*First summit from the South West face on24 September 1975 areDougal Haston andDoug Scott
*First ascent without bottled oxygen is byPeter Habeler (Austria ) andReinhold Messner (Italy ) (8 May 1978 )
*First woman to die on Everest:Hannelore Schmatz , after becoming the 4th woman to summit Everest
*First Winter ascent is byKrzysztof Wielicki ofPoland (17 February 1980 )
*First person to summit Everest soloReinhold Messner (20 August 1980 )
*First woman to climb without oxygen wasLydia Bradey ofNew Zealand (14 November 1988 )
*First true ski descent byDavo Karničar ofSlovenia (7 October 2000 )
*First snowboard descent byMarco Siffredi
*First blind person to Summit Everest isErik Weihenmayer (2000)
*First North Face ski descent byTormod Granheim (2006)
*First successful summit after a severe case ofHAPE : Brian Smith (2007)Beyond the Earth
*First artificial
satellite launched into orbit:Sputnik 1 (1957)
*First animal in space: fruit flies, 1946
*First animal to orbit Earth:Laika (1957)
*First man in space:Yuri Gagarin (1961)
*First woman in space:Valentina Tereshkova (1963)
*First civilian in space:Valentina Tereshkova (1963)
*First spacewalk:Aleksei Leonov (1965)
*First human to walk on theMoon :Neil Armstrong (seeApollo 11 ) (1969)
*First woman to perform a space walk:Svetlana Savitskaya (1984)
*First manned private spaceflight:SpaceShipOne piloted byMike Melvill June 21 ,2004
*First spacecraft to orbit Saturn:Cassini-Huygens July 1 ,2004 cience, Discoveries, Inventions, and Innovations
* First woman officially recognized for a scientific position:
Caroline Herschel , as astronomer SirWilliam Herschel 's assistant, 1787
* Firstcomet discovered by a woman: Discovered byCaroline Herschel ,August 1 ,1786
* First permanent , June or July, 1826 or 1827.
* First permanent , 1861.
* First successful creation ofsoda water : byJoseph Priestley , 1796
* Firstskyscraper -Woolworth Building ,New York City , 57 floors high (792 feet or 241 meters), opened onApril 24 ,1913 .
* First steerable balloon (also known as a dirigible): ByHenri Giffard , 1852.
* First tethered balloon for passengers: developed byHenri Giffard in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. 1878.
* Firstman-made object to reach thestratosphere : Shell fired from theParis Gun , used duringWorld War I .
* First picture taken of the earth's curvature: ByAlexander Dahl travelling in an open hydrogen gas balloon.August 31 ,1933 .
* Firstsound recording : A part ofAu Clair de la Lune , recorded byLeon Scott in 1860. Note that there was neither any contemporary technology nor intention to play the recorded sound.
* First playback of recorded sound:Mary had a little lamb , byThomas Edison in 1877.Natural History
* First homo sapiens: the
Omo Remains include Omo I, the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens (idaltu), dated to around 190,000 years ago. [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00053DFE-C0B7-1213-80B783414B7F0000] This is considerably older than the 160,000-year-old Herto remains, which had been thought to be the earliest humans, and suggests that, if humans did originate in Africa as is currently thought, they did not expand from there for much longer than previously thought.
* First European child born in theNew World :Snorri Þorfinnsson
* First observed transit of a planet across the sun, Mercury, byPierre Gassendi in 1631.
* First international scientific collaboration: Observation of thetransit of Venus 1761 and 1769
* First confirmation ofextrasolar planets : Three bodies orbitingPSR B1257+12 byAleksander Wolszczan andDale Frail in 1992.
* First confirmation of an active volcanic eruption occurring on aseamount : by scientists at the University of Hawai‘i on Lo‘ihi in 1996Life Sciences
* First vaccination:
smallpox ,Edward Jenner , 1796
* First whole-body scanner and x-ray machine:Dayton Miller (Case School of Applied Science),Cleveland ,Ohio , 1896
* First blood transfusion: conducted by Dr.George Crile ,Cleveland ,Ohio (1905)
* First "test-tube baby ":Louise Brown , bornJuly 25 ,1978 inEngland .
* First official recognition ofAIDS :Centers for Disease Control issued a report describing five cases inLos Angeles .June 5 ,1981
* First person to be convicted by the process ofDNA fingerprinting :Colin Pitchfork . 1988
* First person to be by the process ofDNA fingerprinting :Richard Buckland . 1988
* First animalclone d from asomatic cell : Dolly, a sheep born onJuly 5 ,1996 .
* Firstface transplant :Isabelle Dinoire ,November 5 ,2005 .
* First person to have both a mother and father who have travelled into space: Elena Andrianovna, daughter ofValentina Tereshkova andAndriyan Nikolayev .Heart
* First
heart defibrillation : conducted by Dr.Claude Beck ,Cleveland ,Ohio (1947)
* Firstartificial pacemaker implant into a human: By a Swedish team using a pacemaker designed byRune Elmqvist working under the direction of Åke Senning, 1958. The patient was Arne Larsson.
* Firstcoronary artery bypass surgery : conducted by Dr.Rene Favaloro ,Cleveland ,Ohio (1967)
* First heart transplant: First attempted byJames Hardy , but the lack of a human donor forced him to transplant achimpanzee heart instead, which failed shortly after. The first successful transplant was performed byChristiaan Barnard onDecember 3 ,1967 .
* First artificial pacemaker implant into an infant: Into Jason A. Haines when he was 16 hours old,July 26 ,1974 .Commodities
* First bottled food: in 1809 the French confectioner
Nicolas François Appert developed a method of vacuum-sealing food inside glass jars
* First canned food: issued by theFrench Army
* Firstcan-opener : invented 30 years after the first canned foodTraffic Lights
* First
traffic light s installed (gas lamp) : outside Houses of Parliament,London .December 10 ,1868
* First traffic lights installed (electric) : bySalt Lake City policemanLester Wire . 1912
* Firsttraffic signal system installed: by theAmerican Traffic Signal Company on the corner of 105th Street andEuclid Avenue inCleveland, Ohio .August 5 ,1914
* First three-color traffic lights installed: inNew York andDetroit . 1920
* First automatic traffic lights installed: inWolverhampton ,England . 1927Nuclear weapons
* First
nuclear weapon detonation :Atom bomb named "The gadget " during the "Trinity test " nearAlamogordo, New Mexico ,July 16 ,1945
* First nuclear weapon detonation used in war:Atom bomb named "Little Boy " duringWorld War II onHiroshima, Japan ,August 6 ,1945 Information and Communications Technology
* Communication satellite firsts: "Main article:
List of communications satellite firsts "
* Firsttelecommunications system:Claude Chappe 'ssemaphore line s. BetweenParis andLille in 1792
* Firsttelephone message:Alexander Graham Bell in 1876: "Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you." [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr002.html]
* First official adhesivepostage stamp : ThePenny Black ,1 May ,1840
* First trans-Atlantic wireless signal: the letter "S" inMorse code , byGuglielmo Marconi , sent fromPoldhu ,Cornwall , to St. John's, Newfoundland,12 December ,1901 Computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web
* First case of an
algorithm written for a computer:Ada Byron's notes on the analytical engine written in 1842
* Firstprogrammer :Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
* First programmable digitalcomputer : Z3, 1941
* First programmable electronic computer: Colossus, 1943
* First all electronic computer system that worked and continued to work for a decadeENIAC Unveiled 1946
* Firste-mail : started around 1965
* First e-mail spam: sent using CTSS MAIL about 1971, at a time of campus unrest and anti-war rallies in the USA
* Firstvideo game console :Magnavox Odyssey , 1975
* First reigningmonarch toe-mail : sent by Queen Elizabeth II from a British army base in 1976
* First e-commerce businessBoston Computer Exchange uploads database of computers for sale toDelphi online service March 4 ,1983
* First e-mail correspondence between heads of government:Carl Bildt (Sweden) andBill Clinton (United States) in 1992
* First book about the web: "Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog " (1992) byEd Krol , had a whole chapter devoted to the web
* Firstweb portal to doadvertising :Global Network Navigator founded byTim O'Reilly andDale Dougherty , 1993
* Firstadvertisement on theinternet : by Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe on theGlobal Network Navigator website, 1993
* First usage of awebcam :Trojan room coffee pot , 1991
* First photographic image on the Web:Les Horribles Cernettes , 1992
* First electronic payment over theInternet :PaySafe , 1992
* Firstinstant messaging service:ICQ released in November, 1996ports
*First person to drive an automobile across the US in winter and from New York City to Paris France winning The Great Auto Race 22,000 mile course in 169 days/13,341 miles driven:
George Schuster , (1908)
*First human to run a mile under 4 minutes:Roger Bannister , (1954)
*First person to swim theEnglish Channel :Matthew Webb , (1875)
*First woman to swim theEnglish Channel :Gertrude Ederle , (1926)
*First person to complete a long distance swim in all 5 oceans of the world:Lewis Gordon Pugh , (2005/2006)
*First free diver to descend 100 metres (330 ft) in water:Jacques Mayol ,November 23 ,1976
*First Olympian disqualified for drug use:Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at the1968 Summer Olympics
*Firstbungee jump : by four members of theDangerous Sports Club led byDavid Kirke , from the 250ftClifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.1 April ,1979
*First woman to bicycle around the world:Annie Londonderry , (1895)
*First auto race in the United States: Held on the grounds ofBelcourt Castle ,Newport, Rhode Island , 1899
*First black person to coach a professionalice hockey team:John Paris Jr. of the International Hockey League'sAtlanta Knights (1994).Football
*First football player to be knighted: Sir
Stanley Matthews , (1965)
*First football player to take apenalty shootout :George Best , in the semi-finals of theWatney Cup , England (1970)
*First football player to miss a penalty shootout: Dennis Law, in the semi-finals of the Watney Cup, England (1970)
*First major football tournament to be settled by a penalty shootout -UEFA European Football Championship 1976, Czechoslovakia vs. West Germany (a penalty score of 5-3 respectively)
*First football World Cup match to be decided by a penalty shootout: the 1982 semi-finals between West Germany and France (a penalty score of 5-4 respectively)
*First football World Cup final match to be decided by a penalty shootout: 1994 final between Brazil and Italy, atPasadena, California (a penalty score of 3-2 respectively).Culture
* First man or woman in mythology: "see
First man or woman "
* First officially recorded instance of wearing ofhigh heels :Catherine de' Medici , Queen of France, on her wedding.October 28 ,1533
* First person to make atelevision broadcast from space:Andriyan Nikolayev , August 1962.Film
* First film ever made:
Roundhay Garden Scene
* First feature-length film:The Story of the Kelly Gang
* First feature-lengthsound film :The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
* First black-and-white film to be colorized: "Topper" in 1985 (the original film was released in 1937)
* Firstlesbian -themedfilm : "Mädchen in Uniform " directed by Leontine Sagan and scriptwritten byChrista Winsloe . Germany, 1931
* First woman to appear nude in a motion picture:Audrey Munson as a sculptor's model in "Inspiration", 1915
* First nude scene in German filmmaking: Performed byHildegard Knef for the character of Marina in "Die Sünderin (The Sinner)", 1950
* First feature-lengthcomputer-generated imagery film:Toy Story , 1995
* Firstfiction alfeature film shot with amobile phone to premiere at majorfilm festival s: "Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan ", 2007
* First actor to portraySuperman on screen:Kirk Alyn in themovie serial "Superman". 1948.Literature
* First novel in English: Several works of literature have each been claimed as the first novel in English. "See
First novel in English ".
* First novel about invasion:The Battle of Dorking (1871), byGeorge Tomkyns Chesney .
* First novel about spies:The Riddle of the Sands (1903), byErskine Childers or The Spy, byJames Fennimore Cooper (1821) (depends on your source and interpretation).
* First novel whose manuscript was type written: "Life on the Mississippi " (published 1883) byMark Twain .
* First American novel:The Power of Sympathy , byWilliam Hill Brown .
* First translator of an English formal equivalence of theAncient Hebrew Bible: "THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible" [ [http://tcprayer.bravehost.com/torah1.htm THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible] ] , by RabbiHowshua Amariel .
* First realistic novelFact|date=April 2008 and first novel in Spanish:Don Quixote , byMiguel de Cervantes Music
* First woman to write a #1
Country Music hit:Jenny Lou Carson - 1945 "You Two-time Me Once Too Often".By country
*
India : "seeList of firsts in India "
*Sweden : "seeList of firsts in Sweden "
*United States : "seeList of firsts in the United States "ee also
*
List of notable last events * List of firsts in pinball game technology
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