Bad Dog Needs Rotten Home

THE NEW HOME FOR THE BEST STUFF ON THE WEB.

CRAZY FIRSTS IN HISTORY

Added on: 12th Oct 2015

 

FIRST SKYSCRAPER

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

Erden Eruc of Turkey walked and rowed right around the world!

 

 

FIRST HUMAN TO BE KILLED BY A ROBOT

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

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

amazing firsts

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.

 


View by Month