FIRST child born in the American colonies?
Virginia Dare on August 18th, 1587 on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

FIRST person to cross Antarctic Circle?
James Cook in 1773.

FIRST Tsar of Russia?
Ivan IV (the Terrible) 1547

FIRST Doctor to perform human heart transplant?
Christiaan Barnard in1967. Louis Washkansky was the first recipent. He lived 18 days.

FIRST black to become a Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall 1967

FIRST winner of the Indianapolis 500 car race?
Ray Harroun in 1911. His average speed was 74.59 mph, he finished in 6 hours, 42 minutes.

FIRST human in space?
Yuri Gagarin in 1961

FIRST man to reach the South Pole?
Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer in1911, beating out an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.

FIRST Negro-League player elected to Baseball Hall of Fame?
Satchel Paige who was inducted in 1971

FIRST US Patent Holder?
Samuel Hopkins is the holder of US Patent #1 and is dated 1790. Thousands of patents were issued before his, but his was the first when the numbering started. He patented a process for making potash and pearl ashes.

FIRST formal cremation in US?
Henry Laurens - Charleston, South Carolina statesman who left instructions in his will in 1792.

FIRST Masters Golf Tournament Champion?
Horton Smith in 1934 won the under the magnolia trees of Augusta National in Georgia.

FIRST canonized American saint?
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. 1946

FIRST Secretary General of United Nations?
Trygve Lie - Norwegian socialist, 1946.

FIRST person to break the sound barrier by going faster than the speed of sound?
Chuck Yeager in 1947.

FIRST sex-change operation recipient?
George (Christine) Jorgenson in1952. Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a sex change operation in Berlin March 5, 1930. He assumed the identity of Lili Elbe, and had ovaries implanted. It is speculated that Wegener was actually a hermaphrodite, and the credit for first sex change usually is given to Christine Jorgenson.

FIRST recorded climb of Mt. Everest?
Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953

FIRST person recorded to run a mile race in under four minutes?
Roger Bannister,1954

FIRST indicted bank robber in the US?
Edward Smith. He was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison in 1831.

FIRST airline hostess?
Ellen Church. She served passengers flying between San Francisco, CA and Cheyenne, WY on United Airlines in 1930.

FIRST immigrant to pass through Ellis Island?
Annie Moore in 1892. She was 15 years old and from County Cork, Ireland.

FIRST black US Senator?
Hiram Revels. He completed the term of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who had resigned to become president of the Confederacy in 1860.

FIRST to commit a train robbery?
Jesse James. July 21, 1873 in Adair, Iowa.

FIRST skyscraper architect?
Louis Henry Sullivan in 1891 who was architect of the 10-story, Wainwright Building.

FIRST woman to receive medical degree in US?
Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849.

FIRST woman to receive the US Medal of Honor?
Mary Walker who was a Civil War surgeon.

FIRST woman to run for President of the US?
Victoria Woodhall in 1872.

FIRST woman US mayor?
Susanna M. Salter in 1887. (Argonia, KS).

FIRST female lawyer in US?
Myra Bradwell. She qualified for Illinois bar in 1869, but was prevented, due to gender, from being admitted to practice until 1892.

FIRST policewoman in the US?
Alice Wells in 1910.

FIRST woman elected to US congress?
Jeannette Rankin in Montana, 1916. Only legislator to vote against both WW I and WW II.

FIRST woman to qualify and race at the Indianapolis 500?
Janet Guthrie in 1977.

FIRST test tube baby?
Louise Brown in 1978 in Lancastershire, England.

FIRST reigning queen of England?
Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary) in 1553