List of firsts

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

Table of contents

1 Exploration

1.1 Mount Everest

2 Leaders
3 Religion
4 Science

4.2 Space Science

5 Sporting
6 Computers
7 Other

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

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 (Tibet]]tan 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

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 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

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 relational database: Oracle database. (1979)