List of firsts

This is a list of the first man/woman/animal/object etc., to do something or the first occurrence of an event.

Contents

1 Exploration 1.1 Mount Everest 2 Leaders 3 Science and Phenomena 3.1 Space Science 4 Sports 5 Computers 6 Law and Order 7 Other

Exploration

• First disputed expedition to the (geographic) North Pole: Robert Edwin Peary and his employee Matthew Henson and four Inuit men Ootah, Seegloo, Egingway, and Ooqueah. April 9, 1909
• First people to sight the (geographic) North Pole: Roald Amundsen and his sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from an aircraft piloted by Umberto Nobile, between 11 May and 13 May, 1926
• First people to reach the (geographic) North Pole: Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict landed their plane. May 3, 1952
• First people to reach the South Pole: Roald Amundsen and his party - Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting. December 14, 1911
• First (and only, as of 2005) people to reach the deepest point on earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean: Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh on the Bathyscaphe Trieste. January 23, 1960
• First people to scale K2, the world's second-highest peak: Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni of the party led by Ardito Desio and Mario Puchoz. July 29, 1954

Mount Everest

• First recorded deaths on Everest: 7 Sherpas die in avalanche in 1922
• First successful summit (via the South-East Ridge Route) Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary 29 May 1953
• First successful summit via the North Ridge by a Chinese team on 25 May 1960
• First American to reach summit James Whittaker in 1963
• First The first ascent of the West Ridge on 22 May 1963 Willi Unsoeld and Tom 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 is Junko Tabei of Japan on 16 May 1975 via the South-East Ridge
• First woman to summit from the North (Tibettan side is a Tibbettan woman named Phantog.
• First summit from the South West face on 24 September 1975 are Dougal Haston and Doug Scott
• First Ascent without bottled oxygen is by Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner (Italy) on the 8 May 1978
• First European woman and the third woman to summit Everest is Wanda Rutkiewicz
• First woman to die on Everest is Hannelore Schmatz, after becoming the 4th woman to summit Everest
• First Winter ascent is by Krzysztof Wielicki of Poland on the 17 February 1980
• First Indian woman summit was Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984
• First woman to climb without oxygen was Lydia Bradey of New Zealand on 14 November 1988
• First true ski descent by Davo Karnicar
• First snowboard descent by Marco Siffredi
• First blind person to Summit Everest is Erik Weihenmayer in 2000

Leaders

• First Emperor of Rome: Augustus (ca. 27 BC)
• First Christian Monarch of Sweden: Olof Skötkonung (995)
• First President of the United States: George Washington. (1789)
• First US President to reside in the White House: John Adams (1797)
• First Prime Minister of Sweden: Louis De Geer (1876)
• World's first elected female premier: Sirimavo Bandaranaike, as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. (1960)
• World's first democratically elected female head of state: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
• First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: Margaret Thatcher. (1979)
• First Canadian-born Governor General of Canada: Vincent Massey
• First French-Canadian Governor General of Canada: Georges Vanier
• First female Governor General of Canada: Jeanne Sauvé
• First Prime Minister of Canada: Sir John A. Macdonald (1867)
• First French-Canadian Prime Minister of Canada (after Confederation): Wilfrid Laurier
• First female Prime Minister of Canada: Kim Campbell
• First African-American elected governor of a U.S. state: Douglas Wilder of Virginia (1989)
• First President of Slovenia: Milan Kučan. (1990)
• First black President of South Africa: Nelson Mandela. (1994)

Science and Phenomena

• First international scientific collaboration: Observation of the transit of Venus 1761 and 1769
• First telecommunications system: Claude Chappe's semaphore lines. Between Paris and Lille in 1792
• First traffic lights installed (gas lamp) : outside Houses of Parliament, London. December 10, 1868
• First traffic lights installed (electric) : by Salt Lake City policeman Lester Wire. 1912
• First traffic signal system installed : by the American Traffic Signal Company on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. August 5, 1914
• First three-color traffic lights installed : in New York and Detroit. 1920
• First automatic traffic lights installed : in Wolverhampton, England. 1927
• First official recognition of AIDS: Centers for Disease Control issued a press release describing five cases in Los Angeles. June 5, 1981
• First person to be convicted by the process of DNA fingerprinting: Colin Pitchfork. 1988
• First person to be exonerated by the process of DNA fingerprinting: Richard Buckland. 1988
• First confirmation of an active volcanic eruption occuring on a seamount: by scientists at the University of Hawai‘i on Lo‘ihi in 1996

Space Science

• First artificial satellite launched into orbit: Sputnik 1. (1957)
• First animal to orbit Earth: Laika. (1957)
• First man in space: Yuri Gagarin. (1961)
• First woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova.(1963)
• First spacewalk: Aleksei Leonov. (1965)
• First human to walk on the Moon: Neil Armstrong (see Apollo 11). (1969)
• First woman to perform a space walk: Svetlana Savitskaya. (1984)
• First manned private spaceflight: SpaceShipOne piloted by Mike Melvill. June 21, 2004
• First spacecraft to orbit Saturn: Cassini-Huygens. July 1, 2004

Sports

• First human to run a mile under 4 minutes: Roger Bannister. (1954)
• First woman to swim the English Channel: Gertrude Ederle. (1926)
• First Olympian disqualified for drug use: Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• First bungee jump: by four members of the Dangerous Sports Club led by David Kirke, from the 250ft Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. 1 April, 1979

Computers

• First case of an algorithm written for a computer: Ada Byron's notes on the analytical engine written in 1842
• First programmable digital computer: Z3. 1941
• First programmable electronic computer: ENIAC. 1946
• First programmer: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
• First instant messenger: ICQ released in November, 1996

Law and Order

• First victim of the punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering: Dafydd ap Gruffydd. October 3, 1283
• First person to be executed by the guillotine: Nicolas J. Pelletier, highwayman. April 25, 1792
• First instance of a murder captured live on television : Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald. November 24, 1963. (See pic).

Other

• First person to wear a bikini: Micheline Bernardini. July 5 1946

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