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. Exploration First 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 May 11 and May 13, 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 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 May 29, 1953 First successful summit via the North Ridge by a Chinese team on May 25, 1960 First American to reach summit James Whittaker in 1963 First The first ascent of the West Ridge on May 22, 1963 Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein. Also the first traverse of the South East Ridge First person to summit Everest twice: Nawang Gombu Sherpa May 20, 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 September 24, 1975 are Dougal Haston and Doug Scott First Ascent without bottled oxygen is by Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner (Italy) on the 8th 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 17th 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 14th 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 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 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 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 telecommunications system: Claude Chappe's semaphore lines. Between Paris and Lille in 1792 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 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. 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