List of firsts

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

Science

Space

• 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. (1947)