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

EXPLORATION

First people to reach the 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 the surface of the earth, the and Lieutenant Don Walsh on the Bathyscaphe Trieste . January 23 , 1960

First people to scale , 1954

Geographic North Pole

First (disputed) expedition to the geographic and his employee Matthew Henson and four Inuit men Ootah, Seegloo , Egingway, and Ooqueah. April 9 , 1909

First people to sight it: 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 it: Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict landed their plane. May 3 , 1952

First reigning monarch to reach it: Albert II, Prince Of Monaco . Easter Sunday, 16 April , 2006

Mount Everest

First recorded deaths on 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 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 ( 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 ) ( 8 May 1978 )

First European woman and the third woman to summit Everest: Wanda Rutkiewicz

First woman to die on Everest: Hannelore Schmatz , after becoming the 4th woman to summit Everest

First Winter ascent is by Krzysztof Wielicki of Poland ( 17 February 1980 )

First Indian woman to reach the summit was Bachendri Pal ( 23 May 1984 )

First woman to climb without oxygen was Lydia Bradey of New Zealand ( 14 November 1988 )

First true ski descent by Davo Karničar of Slovenia ( 7 October 2000 )

First snowboard descent by Marco Siffredi

First blind person to Summit Everest is Erik Weihenmayer (2000)

LEADERS

First (ca. 27 BC )

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First . ( 1789 )

First US President to reside in the ( 1797 )

First . ( 1826 )

First female ( 2006 )

First ( 1876 )

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First female Governor General of Canada: Jeanne Sauvé

First ( 1867 )

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First female

First elected female premier: Sirimavo Bandaranaike , Prime Minister Of Sri Lanka . ( 1960 )

First female . ( 1979 )

First of Virginia ( 1989 )

First . ( 1990 )

First black . ( 1994 )

First 1901

World's first female President: Isabel Peron

First as President Of Liberia ( 16 January , 2006 )

First democratically elected female head of state: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President Of Iceland

First Prime Minister of India: Jawaharlal Nehru. (1947)

SCIENCE AND PHENOMENA

First animal found on earth: The oldest animal fossil found is from 600 million years ago during the Precambrian period. They were "soft, cup-shaped animals that lived on a muddy sea floor" {Link without Title} .

First international scientific collaboration: Observation of the Transit Of Venus 1761 and 1769

First 's Semaphore lines. Between Paris and Lille in 1792

First official recognition of issued a press release describing five cases in Los Angeles . June 5 , 1981

First person to be convicted by the process of . 1988

First person to be exonerated by the process of . 1988

First confirmation of an active volcanic eruption occurring on a on Lo‘ihi in 1996

First ", born July 25 , 1978 in England .

First working under the direction of Åke Senning, 1958 . The patient was Arne Larsson.

First artificial pacemaker implant into an infant: Into Jason A. Haines when he was 16 hours old, July 26 , 1974 .

Space Science

First artificial . ( 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 (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 . July 1 , 2004

Traffic lights

First , London . December 10 , 1868

First policeman Lester Wire . 1912

First on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio . August 5 , 1914

First three-color and Detroit . 1920

First automatic , England . 1927

SPORTS

First footballer to be knighted: Sir Stanley Matthews , ( 1965 )

First human to run a mile , ( 1954 )

First person to swim the , ( 1875 )

First woman to swim the , ( 1926 )

First at the 1968 Summer Olympics

First led by David Kirke , from the 250ft Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. 1 April , 1979

COMPUTERS

First case of an written in 1842

First programmable digital , 1941

First programmable electronic computer: Colossus , 1943

First (1815-1852)

First released in November, 1996

First usage of a , 1991

LAW AND ORDER

First victim of the punishment of . October 3 , 1283

First person to be executed by the , Highwayman . April 25 , 1792

First instance of a murder captured live on television : )''.

LITERATURE

First novel about invasion: The Battle Of Dorking (1871), by George Tomkyns Chesney .

First novel about spies: The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), by Erskine Childers .

First american novel: ? The Last Of The Mohicans , by James Fenimore Cooper .

OTHER

First person to wear a . July 5 1946

SEE ALSO

List Of Firsts In India