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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
THE FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT was Ella T. Grasso. After serving in the State House of Representatives, as the Connecticut Secretary of State and in the U.S. House of Representatives, she was elected in 1974 and re-elected in 1978 as the governor of the state. She resigned from the office in Decemeber 1980 due to ovarian cancer and died in February 1981. THE FIRST AMERICAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER was Theodore Roosevelt. The 26th President of the United States received the Peace Prize in 1906 for the Portsmouth Treaty which ended the Russo-Japanese War. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE was Colin Powell. A former four-star general, he served under President George W. Bush from January 20, 2001 to January 26, 2005. THE FIRST WOMAN U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE was Madeleine Albright. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate unanimously. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997 and served until January 20, 2001. THE FIRST INDIAN AMERICAN GOVERNOR was Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. He was elected on October 20, 2007 with 54% of the vote. He was a Republican Congressman serving in the U.S. House of Representative prior to winning the gubernatorial election. THE FIRST POSTMASTER GENERALwas Benjamin Franklin. He was appointed by the Continental Congress on July 26, 1775 and served slightly longer than 15 month until November 1776. THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO RESIDE IN THE WHITE HOUSE was John Adams. The construction of the White House began in October 1792 when George Washington was the President but it wasn't until November 1800 before its first residents President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved in. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE was Thurgood Marshall. His argument in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka (1951) led to landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ending the "separate but equal" treatment of minorities. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson and served from 1967 until he retired in 1991. THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT BORN IN THE 2OTH CENTURY was John F. Kennedy. He was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He defeated Richard Nixon and became the President in January 1961. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He was the youngest man elected and the youngest man to die in office. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYOR OF CHICAGO was Harold Washington. He defeated Mayor Jane M. Byrne and Illinois State Attorney Richard M. Daley in the Democratic Primary and won the general election on April 12, 1983. He won the re-election in April 1987 and died in office on November 25, 1987. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY was David Dinkins. He defeated then Mayor Ed Koch in the Democratic Primary and defeated Rudolph Giuliani in a close election in 1989. He was defeated by Giuliani for a second term in 1993. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES was Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley. He was elected five times and served from 1973 to 1993. He is also the only African American to serve as the mayor of Los Angeles to date. THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION was held in New York City on April 30, 1789. George Washington took oath of office on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. He was unanimously elected by the first electoral college. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN U.S. SENATOR was Hiram Revels of Mississippi. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he served in the U.S. Senate from February 25, 1870 to March 3, 1871. When his brief term ended he went back to Mississippi and later became president of Alcorn College. THE FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN U.S. SENATOR was Hiram L. Fong of Hawaii. He was elected in 1959 and served until 1977. He is the only Republican to represent the state in the Senate to date. He died on August 18, 2004. THE FIRST WOMAN U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE was Sandra Day O'Connor. She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and was confirmed by the Senate 99-0 on September 21, 1981. More Government & Politics First Times SPACE & TECHNOLOGY
THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova of Soviet Union. She piloted Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963 on a three-day mission and conducted various tests on herself to collect data on the female's body's reactio to spaceflight. THE FIRST PEOPLE TO FLY NONSTOP ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN was Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon. Their plane, Miss Veedol, landed belly first onto a muddy airstrip in Wenatchee, Washington, on October 5, 1931 after 41 hour flight from Japan. THE FIRST PERSON TO FLY NONSTOP SOLE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN was Charles Lindbergh. His plane, Spirit of St. Louis, took off from Long Island, New York, at 7:54 AM on May 20, 1927. After a 33 hours 29 minutes 30 seconds flight, he landed in Paris, France, at 10:22 PM local time on May 21, 1927. THE FIRST MAN IN SPACE was Yuri Gagarin of Soviet Union. He was launched into space at 9:07 AM Moscow time on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft, Vostok 1. He orbited the Earth once at a maximum altitude of 187 miles and landed in Soviet Union at 10:55 AM. THE FIRST AMERICAN TO ORBIT THE EARTH was John Herschel Glenn, Jr. His space capsule, "Friendship 7" was launched on February 20, 1962 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. He made three orbits and landed in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas. THE FIRST MAN TO WALK ON THE MOON was Neil Alden Armstrong. He and the crew of Apollo 11 were launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 and landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. He and Buzz Aldrin spent 2 and ½ hours on the moon surface. THE FIRST MAN-MADE OBJECT TO LEAVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM was Voyager 1 space probe. It left Earth on September 5, 1977 and on December 13, 2010, it was confirmed that Voyager 1 passed the reach of the solar wind from the Sun. SPORTS
THE FIRST WOMAN TO QUALIFY AND COMPETE IN BOTH THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 AND DAYTONA 500 AUTO RACES was Janet Guthrie. She first qualified for and competed in the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500 in 1977. She finished 29th in the Indianapolis 500 after her car had engine troubles and 12th in the Daytona 500 when her car's engine blew two cylinders with ten laps to go. THE FIRST NBA BASKETBALL PLAYER TO SCORE 100 POINTS IN A GAME was Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors. He achieved the feat against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962 at Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He is the only player to score 100 points so far. THE FIRST NBA BASKETBALL PLAYER TO SCORE MORE THAN 70 POINTS IN A GAME was Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers who scored 71 points on November 15, 1960 against the New York Knicks. THE FIRST NFL QUARTERBACK TO PASS 5,000 YARDS IN A SEASON was Dan Marino of Miami Dolphins. He passed for 5,084 yards in 1984 in his second year in the NFL. The most passing yard in a season record stood for 27 years until Drew Brees broke it in 2011. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYER IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE was Larry Doby. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the Major League with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He debuted on July 5, 1947 and went 5 for 32 in his rookie season. THE FIRST ATHLETE TO PLAY IN THE SUPERBOWL AND THE WORLD SERIES was Deion Sanders. He won the Superbowl XXIX playing for the San Francisco 49ers and he played in the World Series on the Atlanta Braves team that lost to Toronto Blue Jays in 1992. THE FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN TOUR DE FRANCE was Greg LeMond. By winning in 1986, he also became the first non-European to win the Tour de France. He also won in 1989 and 1990 and is one of nine cyclists to win the Tour de France three times or more. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMBER OF THE PGA TOUR was Charlie Sifford. He became an official member in 1961 and won two PGA Tour tournaments during his career. He also became the first African American inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004. THE FIRST FEMALE TEST DRIVER was Betty Skelton. She set a stock car speed record for women on the beach sand in Daytona Beach, Florida before she worked with the Chrysler's Dodge division as the first female test driver in the auto industry in 1954. THE FIRST PERSON TO SWIM FROM CUBA TO THE U.S. was Susie Maroney of Australia. She swam the 112 mile Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States on May 12, 1997 when she was 22 years old. THE FIRST ASIAN BORN PLAYER IN THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL was Masanori Murakami. He came to the U.S. on an exchange program and played for Fresno Giants, San Francisco Giants' Class-A affiliate. He was promoted to the Major League on September 1, 1964 and played for the San Francisco Giants. THE FIRST OFFICIAL RYDER CUP was played at Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1927. The United States team captained by Walter Hagen defeated the British team captained by Ted Ray by a score of 9 1/2 to 2 1/2. THE FIRST SUPER BOWL was played in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967. Green Bay Packers of NFL defeated Kansas City Chiefs of AFL by a score of 35 - 10. Bart Starr, Green Bay's quarterback won the MVP award. THE FIRST FEMALE GOLFER TO BREAK 60 ON THE LPGA TOUR was Annika Sorenstam of Sweden. During the second round of the Standard Register PING Tournament on March 16, 2001, she shot 13 birdies finishing with 13 under par 59. She also set the lowest 36 hole score with 120 and tied the lowest nine hole score with 28. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPION was Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. He defeated Tom Okker of the Netherlands 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on September 9, 1968. He is the only African American man to win the title to date. THE FIRST MALE GOLFER BORN IN ASIA TO WIN A MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP was Yong-eun Yang of Korea, also known as Y.E. Yang. He won the 91st PGA Championship on August 16, 2009, beating Tiger Woods by three strokes. THE FIRST FEMALE FOOTBALL PLAYER TO SCORE IN A COLLEGE GAME was Sandy Tregarthen. She kicked an extra point for LA Harbor College against Compton College on October 24, 1992. MEDIA
THE FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES was Publick Occurences, Both Foreign and Domestick. It was published on September 25, 1690 in Boston, Massachusetts. It was to be published once a month or oftener but after its initial publication, the Governor and Council shut down the paper. ENTERTAINMENT
THE FIRST PERSON TO WIN AN EMMY, A GRAMMY, AN OSCAR AND A TONY AWARDS was Rita Moreno. She won the Oscar for "West Side Story", the Grammy for The Electric Company Album, the Tony for "The Ritz" and the Emmy for "The Muppet Show" and "The Rockford Files". THE FIRST ACADEMY AWARDS CEREMONY was held on May 16, 1929 in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The winners were announced to newspapers before the ceremony. The banquet event in its first year was attended by 250 and tickets cost $10. THE FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN TO WIN AN ACADEMY AWARD was Haing S. Ngor. He won the Best Supporting Actor award in 1984 for his role in The Killing Fields. The competition that year included fellow Asian American Noriyuki "Pat" Morita for The Karate Kid and John Malkovich for Places in the Heart. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO WIN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS was Halle Berry. She won the award for her role in Monster's Ball. The competition that year included Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge!, Judi Dench for Iris, Renee Zellweger for Bridget Jones' Diary and Sissy Spacek for In the Bedroom. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO WIN AN ACADEMY AWARD was Hattie McDaniel. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" in 1940. TRAVEL
THE FIRST NATIONAL PARK IN THE UNITED STATES was Yellowstone National Park. The park covering 3,468 square miles of mostly undeveloped land in the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho was established by the U.S. Congress on March 1, 1872. |
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