List of firsts
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This is a list of the first man/woman/animal/object etc., to do something.

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)
• First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: Margaret Thatcher. (1979)
• First black President of South Africa: Nelson Mandela. (1994)

Space Science

• 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. (1954)
• First woman to swim the English Channel: Gertrude Ederle. (1926)

Computers

• First programmable digital computer: Z3. (1941)
• First programmable electronic computer: ENIAC. (1946)
• First relational database: Oracle database. (1979)

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