The Firsts

The Firsts

World's first female President: Isabel Peron (Argentine)

First "test-tube baby": Louise Brown, born July 25, 1978 in England.

First telephone message by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

First person to become an Honorary Citizen of the United States: Winston Churchill in 1963.

First colour comic: "The Yellow Kid" by Richard Outcault, in New York World, 1895.

First instant messenger: ICQ released in November, 1996.

First Olympian disqualified for drug use: Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

First person to wear a bikini: Micheline Bernardini, a nudist dancer at the Casino de Paris, in 1946.

First official recognition of AIDS: On June 5, 1981 Centers for Disease Control issued a press release describing five cases in Los Angeles.

First person to die in space: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on April 24, 1967 during his solo mission.

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