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List of firsts
This is a list of the first man/woman/animal/etc to do something.
Table of contents
1 Leaders
2 Science
2.1 Space
3 Sporting
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
)
First female
Prime Minister
of the
United Kingdom
:
Margaret Thatcher
. (
1979
)
First black
President
of
South Africa
:
Nelson Mandela
. (
1994
)
Science
Space
First artificial
satellite
launched into orbit:
Sputnik 1
. (
1957
)
First animal to orbit Earth:
Laika
. (1957)
First spacewalk:
Aleksei Leonov
. (
1965
)
First man in space:
Yuri Gagarin
. (
1961
)
First woman in space:
Valentina Tereshkova
.(
1963
)
First human to walk on the
Moon
:
Neil Armstrong
. (
1969
)
Sporting
First human to run a mile under 4 minutes:
Roger Bannister
. (
1947
)
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