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| Aileen Wuornos | | Female Serial Killer in the US |
1992
| Alice Wells | | Woman Police Officer in the US |
1910 Los Angeles
| Amelia Earhart | | Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic |
On June 18-19, 1928. She disappeared in 1937, as she attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world.
| Andre-Jacques Garnerin | | Person to Use a Parachute |
Jumped from a hot-air balloon in 1797
| Ann Franklin | | Woman Newspaper Editor in the US |
1762
| Annie G. Fox | | Woman to Receive the US Purple Heart Medal |
1942 She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. At that time the awarding of the Purple Heart did not require the service person to be injured. The requirements were later changed & Lt. Fox was awarded the Bronze Star as she wasn't wounded in the attack.
| Annie Moore | | To Pass Through Ellis Island, USA As an Immigrant |
1892
| Antoinette De Correvont | | Professional Woman Photographer |
1843 in Munich
| Arabella Mansfield | | Woman Lawyer to Graduate from Law School |
1869
| Barbara Harmer | | Woman to Pilot the Concorde |
1993
| Bartolomeo Cristofori | | To Build a “modern†Piano |
1698
| Ben Mowatt | | To Juggle Six Clubs Simultaneously |
| Berenice Gera | | Female Professional Baseball Umpire in the US |
1972
| Bessie Coleman | | Black Female Pilot |
1921
| Booker T. Washington | | Black Man to Be Pictured on a US Postage Stamp |
1940
| Borge Ousland | | To Make an Unassisted Antarctic Solo Crossing |
1997
| Carlos Santana | | Hispanic to Be Inducted Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
1998
| Carl Stokes | | Black Mayor of a Major US City |
1967-Cleveland, OH
| Charles Blondin | | To Cross Niagara Falls on a Tightrope |
1859
| Charles Curtis | | American Indian to Become a US Senator |
1907 from Kansas
| Charles Lindbergh | | To Fly Solo Across the Atlantic |
1927
| Christiaan Barnard | | To Perform a Human Heart Transplant |
1967
| Chuck Yeager | | Man to Break the Sound Barrier in an Airplane |
1947
| Condoleezza Rice | | African American Woman to Serve As US Secretary of State |
2005
| Cynthia M. Trudell | | Woman to Head a US Car Company |
Saturn Corp 1999
| Dave Kunst | | To Walk Around the World |
1970-74, He wore out 21 pair of shoes
| Diana Nyad | | Person to Swim from the Bahamas to Florida |
1979
| Douglas Englebart | | To Make a Computer Mouse |
1964
| Edward Bransfield | | To Discover the Continent of Antarctica |
1820
| Edward Smith | | To Receive an Indictment for Robbing a Bank in the US |
1831
| Eileen Marie Collins | | Female Space Shuttle Pilot |
1995
| Elizabeth Hoisington | | Female General in the US Armed Forces |
1970
| Elizabeth II | | English Monarch to Have a Televised Coronation |
1953
| Ellen Church | | Woman Airline Hostess |
1930 United Airlines
| Emil Jannings | | Man to Receive an Oscar for Best Actor |
1928
| Emily Warner | | Female Commercial Airline Pilot in the US |
Frontier Airlines 1973
| Erling Kagge | | To Reach the North Pole Unsupported |
1990
| Erling Kagge | | To Surmount All Three Poles |
North Pole, South Pole, and Mt. Everest
| Ernest Lord Rutherford | | To Split the Atom |
He also gained the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, demonstrating that radioactivity was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms.
| Ethelda "Thel" Bleibtrey | | Woman to Win a Gold Medal in the Olympics |
1920 Swimming
| Frank Sinatra | | To Release a 33 1/3 Long-play Record Album |
“The Voice of Frank Sinatra†1948
| Gaspard Felix Tournachon | | To Take an Aerial Photgraph |
1858 from an air balloon
| Gayle Gardner | | Woman to Do a Play-by-play Broadcast of a Football Game (US) |
1993
| George Carlin | | Guest Host on “Saturday Night Live†|
1975
| George (Christine) Jorgenson | | Person to Receive a Sex Change Operation |
1952
| Groucho Marx | | To Guest Host for Johnny Carson’s on the Tonight Show |
| Halle Berry | | African American Female to Receive an Oscar for Best Actress |
2002
| Hattie McDaniel | | Black Actress to Win an Oscar |
1940-Gone With the Wind
| Hillary Clinton | | Woman in U.S. History to Win a Presidential Primary Contest |
2008
| Ivan IV | | Czar of Russia |
1547 “the Terribleâ€
| Jacqueline Cochrane | | Woman to Break the Sound Barrier in an Airplane |
1953
| James Cook | | To Cross the Antarctic Circle |
1773. They discovered nearby islands but did not catch sight of Antarctica itself.
| Jane Matilda Bolen | | Black Woman Judge in the USA |
1939
| Janet Gaynor | | Woman to Receive an Oscar for Best Actress |
1928
| Jerrie Mock | | Around-the-world Solo Flight by a Woman |
1964
| Jesse James | | To Commit a Train Robbery |
1873 in Adair, Iowa, USA
| Joan Benoit | | Women's Olympic Marathon Winner at the Summer Games |
1984, held in Los Angeles
| Joan Crawford | | Guest on the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson |
1962
| John Jay | | To Become a US Supreme Court Justice |
1789
| John J. McDermott | | To Win the First Annual Boston Marathon |
1897
| Josee Auclair | | Person to Lead an All-woman Ski Team to the North Pole |
2001
| Joseph Nicéphore Niépce | | To Take a Photograph With a Camera |
1826
| Keith Ellison | | Muslim American to Be Elected to the US Congress |
2007
| Kim Campbell | | Woman Prime Minister of Canada |
1993
| Kurt Browning | | Figure Skater to Land a Quadruple Jump in Competition |
1988
| Libby Riddles | | Woman to Win the Iditerod Dogsled Race in Alaska |
1985
| Louise Brown | | Test Tube Baby |
1978 Lancashire, England
| Lucy Walker | | Woman to Successfully Climb the Matterhorn |
1871
| Marie Sklodowska Curie | | Person to Ever Win Two Nobel Prizes |
1903 Physics, 1911 Chemistry
| Mark Spitz | | Athlete to Win 7 Olympic Gold Medals at a Single Olympics |
1972
| Marquis D'Arlandes & Pilatre De Rozier | | Humans to Fly |
In an air balloon 1783
| Mary Kies | | Woman to Receive a US Patent |
1809-a bonnet making process
| Mary Lund | | Female Recipient of a Heart Transplant |
1986
| Matthew A Henson | | To Reach the Geographic North Pole |
1909
| Matthew Webb | | Person to Swim Across the English Channel |
1875
| Maurice Garin | | Tour De France Winner |
1903
| Michael Jordan | | Basketball Player Pictured on a Box of Wheaties Cereal |
1988
| Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini | | Canonized American Saint |
1946
| Murasaki Shikibu | | Write a Novel |
Tale of the Genji 1007
| Nat King Cole | | African American Host of a Television Program |
1955
| Neil Armstrong | | Man on the Moon |
1969
| Nicky Hilton | | To Marry Elizabeth Taylor |
1950
| Patricia McCormick | | Professional Woman Bull Fighter |
1952
| Perry Como | | Recording Artist to Receive a Gold Record |
1958 “Catch a Falling Starâ€
| Peter Sellers | | Male to Appear on the Cover of Playboy Magazine |
1964
| Queen Isabella of Spain | | Woman to Appear on a US Postage Stamp |
1893
| Queen Victoria | | English Monarch to Live in Buckingham Palace |
1837
| Ralph Plaisted | | To Succeed in a Surface Traverse Across the Ice to the North Pole |
1968
| Ray Harroun | | To Win an Indianapolis 500 Car Race |
1911-avg speed of 74.59 mph
| Red Barber | | To Perform a Television Broadcast of a Baseball Game |
1939
| Richard Byrd | | Man to Fly over the North Pole |
1926
| Richard Hollilngshead | | To Host a Drive-in Movie |
1932 nailed a screen to a tree in his yard
| Roald Amundson | | Man to Reach the South Pole |
1910-1912
| Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. | | African American Astronaut |
1967
| Robert Peary & Matthew Henson | | To Reach the North Pole |
In 1909
| Rosika Schwimmer | | Woman Ambassador in the World |
Hungarian ambassador to Switzerland 1918
| Roy Claxton Acuff | | Living Person Admitted to the Country Music Hall of Fame |
1962
| Ruth Eisemann-Schier | | Woman to Appear on the FBI Most Wanted List |
1968
| S. A. Andree | | Man to Die Trying to Reach the Geographic North Pole by Hydrogen Balloon |
1897
| Sally Jean Priesand | | Ordained Woman Rabbi in the US |
1972
| Sally Kristen Ride | | US Woman in Space |
1983
| Sam Patch | | Person to Survive the Jump off of Niagara Falls |
1829
| Sarah Caldwell | | Woman to Conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City |
1976
| Sarah Palin | | Woman to Run for Vice President on the Republican Ticket |
2008
| Sinclair Lewis | | American Author to Win a Nobel Prize for Literature |
1930
| Sir Alexander MacKenzie | | To Complete a Transcontinental Crossing of North America |
North of Mexico - 1793
| Sir Edmund Hillary | | To Conquer Mt Everest |
With Nepalese Sherpa Tensing Norgay in 1953
| Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes | | To Completely Cross Antarctica on Foot |
2003
| Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert | | To Walk to the North Pole |
1969
| Sir William Herschel | | To Discover a Planet Not Visible to the Naked Eye |
Uranus in 1781. The next was Neptune, discovered by John Couch Adams in 1846.
| Steve Fossett | | Person to Fly Solo Around the World in an Air Balloon |
2002
| Theodore Roosevelt | | American to Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
1906
| Thomas Jefferson | | US President to Be Inaugurated in Washington DC |
1801
| Thomas Selfridge | | Man to Be Killed in an Airplane Accident |
1908-he was riding with Orville Wright
| Tim Hyer | | Recognized Boxing (fisticuffs) Champion in the US |
1841
| Trygve Lie | | Secretary General of the United Nations |
1946 a Norwegian socialist
| Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova | | Woman in Space |
1963
| Vanessa Williams | | Black Woman to Become Miss America |
1983
| Victoria Woodhall | | Woman to Run for US President |
1872
| Vida Goldstein | | Woman to Run for a National Office in the British Empire |
1902
| Virginia Dare | | To Be Born of European Descent in the American Colonies |
1587
| Vonetta Flowers | | African American Female US Athlete to Win a Gold Medal in a Winter Olympics |
2002 - She won in the women's bobsleigh event
| Wallis Simpson | | To Become Time Magazine’s Woman of the Year |
1936
| Wilhelm Steinitz | | World Chess Champion |
1886
| William Hill Brown | | To Write an American Novel |
1789 set in Boston
| William Kemmler | | To Be Executed by Electrocution |
1890 in Auburn New York, USA
| William O'Ree | | Black Man to Play Hockey in the NHL |
1958
| Will Steger | | To Reach the North Pole by Dogsled Without Re-supply |
1986
| Yuri Gagarin | | Human in Space |
1961
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