CRAZY FIRSTS IN HISTORY
Added on: 12th Oct 2015
FIRST SKYSCRAPER
The Home Insurance Building was erected in Chicago in 1884 and
has been called the “Father of the Modern Skyscraper”.
It was 10 stories high.
FIRST SOLO PERSON TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE
GLOBE USING ONLY HUMAN POWER
Erden Eruc of Turkey walked and rowed right around the world!
FIRST HUMAN TO BE KILLED BY A ROBOT
On January 25 1979 Robert Williams died when he was hit in the head
by a mechanical arm at a Ford casting plant.
FIRST NATIONAL PARK
Yellowstone in the USA was the first national park on Earth.
President Ulysses S Grant declared it a protected area in 1872.
FIRST OFFICIAL FAN-MADE MUSIC VIDEO
The band Placebo was so impressed by Grégoire Pinard’s Claymation
video made to their song “English Summer Rain” that they
decided to make it official.
FIRST ACTION MOVIE, FICTION FILM, AND
AMERICAN WESTERN
The 1903 film The Great Train Robbery was 10 minutes long
and had 14 scenes.
FIRST PERSON TO REACH THE NORTH POLE
ALONE AND ON FOOT
Although Sir Wally Herbert of the UK was the first confirmed person to
reach the North Pole in 1969, Børge Ousland of Norway walked
there by himself in 1994!
FIRST MANNED MAIDEN SPACE FLIGHT
When the first space shuttle launched on April 12, 1981 no space
shuttle had ever been flown before, not even in a test. Astronauts
John Young and Robert Crippen really were venturing out into the
great unknown because prior to this point all space vehicles had
at least undergone unmanned test flights before carrying
humans on board.
FIRST AUTOMATIC WEAPON
In 1883 Sir Hiram Maxim created the Maxim gun. The world’s first
machine gun would go on to revolutionize warfare and was used
in both World Wars.
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