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    Famous Firsts in American History

    Have you ever wondered what George Washington, the first President of America and Oprah Winfrey, the first African-American woman to own her own television production company have in common? They both were the famous firsts in American history. Read the following Buzzle article to know some more famous firsts.

    ❝There are 86400 seconds in a day. 86400 moments to create firsts.❞
    ― David Cuschieri
    Time and history have borne witness to remarkable incidences, and the most amazing people who have not only stepped out of the ordinary, but have opened doors and paved way for many more who dared to follow them. You can even say that these brave individuals set a new trend. Some of these people have shown immense courage and attempted to do something that not only got them fame and success but also inspired the future generations of this country. These extraordinary people dared to step out of the ordinary and become a first. And this Buzzle post lists out some famous firsts in American history.
    Important Firsts in American History
    Virginia Dare Year: 1587 First child born in the American colonies
    Anne Bradstreet Year: 1650 First published American woman writer
    Ann Smith Franklin Year: 1762 First woman newspaper editor
    John Jay Year: 1789 First Chief Justice of the United States
    Frederick Muhlenberg Year: 1789 First Speaker of the House of Representatives
    Edmund Randolph Year: 1789 First Attorney General.
    George Washington Year: 1789 First and only President to be elected with a unanimous vote
    Martha Washington Year: 1789 First Lady
    Benjamin Stoddert Year: 1798 First Secretary of the Navy
    Thomas Jefferson Year: 1801 First President to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.
    Mary Lyon Year: 1837 Founded the first women's college in the U.S.
    William Henry Harrison Year: 1841 First President to die in office.
    Elizabeth Blackwell Year: 1849 First woman to receive medical degree in U.S.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell Year: 1853 First American woman ordained a minister
    William Carney Year: 1863 First African-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor
    Mary Walker Year: 1865 First and only woman to receive the Medal of Honor
    David Glasgow Farragut Year: 1866 First admiral, rear admiral, and vice admiral in the U.S. Navy
    Lucy Hobbs Taylor Year: 1867 First woman to become a certified dentist
    Ebenezer D. Bassett Year: 1869 First African-American diplomat
    Arabella Mansfield Year: 1869 First woman lawyer
    Jefferson Long Year: 1870 First African-American elected to U.S. House of Representatives
    Hiram Revels Year: 1870 First African-American Senator
    Victoria Woodhull Year: 1872 First woman to run for President of the U.S.
    Herbert Hoover Year: 1874 First President to be born on U.S. soil
    Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood Year: 1879 First female lawyer to plead a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
    Mary Mahoney Year: 1879 First African-American female nurse
    Moses Fleetwood Walker Year: 1884 First African-American major league baseball player
    Susanna M. Salter Year: 1887 First woman elected as mayor
    Louise Blanchard Bethune Year: 1890 First American woman architect
    Louis Henry Sullivan Year: 1891 First American architect to build a skyscraper
    Myra Bradwell Year: 1892 First female lawyer in the U.S.
    May Sutton Brandy Year: 1904 First American woman to win at Wimbledon
    Alice Wells Year: 1910 First policewoman in the U.S.
    Harriet Quimby Year: 1911 First woman to fly across the English Channel
    Louis D. Brandeis Year: 1916 First Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court
    Jeannette Rankin Year: 1916 First woman elected to U.S. Congress
    Lucy Slowe Year: 1920 First African-American woman to win a major sports title in the U.S.
    Bessie Coleman Year: 1921 First African-American female pilot.
    Margaret Gorman Year: 1921 First Miss America.
    Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. Year: 1924 First African-American diplomat to become an ambassador
    Gertrude Ederle Year: 1926 First American woman to swim the English Channel.
    Al Jolson Year: 1927 First to star in the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer
    Janet Gaynor Year: 1928 First winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress.
    Ellen Church Year: 1930 First female flight attendant.
    Sinclair Lewis Year: 1930 First American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
    Jane Addams Year: 1931 First American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
    Hattie Caraway Year: 1932 First woman United States Senator
    Amelia Earhart Year: 1932 First woman to fly transatlantic solo
    Frances Perkins Year: 1933 First woman to be included in the U.S. Presidential Cabinet.
    Lettie Pate Whitehead Year: 1934 First American woman to be on Coca-Cola's board of directors.
    Wallis Warfield Simpson Year: 1936 Was the first Woman of the Year in the Time magazine.
    Hattie McDaniel Year: 1940 First African-American to win an Academy Award, and to be honored with a U.S. postage stamp
    Gwendolyn Brooks Year: 1949 First African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
    Florence Chadwick Year: 1951 First woman to have swum across the English Channel in each direction.
    Jacqueline Cochrane Year: 1953 First woman to have flown a bomber across the Atlantic
    Tenley Albright Year: 1953 First American female skater to win an Winter Olympics gold medal
    Marian Anderson Year: 1955 First African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera
    Althea Gibson Year: 1957 First African-American to win a Wimbledon singles title
    William O'Ree Year: 1958 First African-American hockey player in the NHL
    Ruth Carol Taylor Year: 1958 First African-American woman to become a flight attendant
    Clifton R Wharton, Jr. Year: 1958 First African-American US foreign minister
    Hiram L. Fong Year: 1959 First Chinese-American in the U.S. Senate
    Daniel K. Inouye Year: 1959 First Japanese-American in the U.S. House of Representatives
    Harry Belafonte Year: 1960 First African-American performer to win an Emmy Award
    Roy Claxton Acuff Year: 1962 First living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame
    John Glenn Year: 1962 First U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth
    Jerrie Mock Year: 1964 First woman to fly solo around the world
    Sidney Poitier Year: 1964 First African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor
    Patricia R Harris Year: 1965 First African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet
    Robert C. Weaver Year: 1966 First African-American to hold a cabinet-level position in the U.S.
    Thurgood Marshall Year: 1967 First African-American to become a Supreme Court judge
    Muriel Siebert Year: 1967 First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
    Carl Stokes Year: 1967 First African-American to be elected mayor of a major city
    Shirley Chisholm Year: 1968 First African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives
    Neil Armstrong Year: 1969 First man to walk on the moon
    Elizabeth P. Hoisington Year: 1970 First female brigadier general in the armed forces
    Bella Savitsky Abzug Year: 1971 First Jewish woman in Congress
    Bernice Gera Year: 1972 First female umpire in professional baseball
    Jean Westwood Year: 1972 First female chair of the Democratic National Committee
    Richard Milhous Nixon Year: 1974 First and the only U.S. President to resign from office
    George Carlin Year: 1975 First host of Saturday Night Live
    Ella Grasso Year: 1975 First woman governor
    Sarah Caldwell Year: 1976 First female conductor at the Metropolitan Opera
    Bette Davis Year: 1977 First woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
    Janet Guthrie Year: 1977 First woman to qualify and race at the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500
    Harvey Milk Year: 1977 First acknowledged homosexual elected to high local office
    Sandra Day O'Connor Year: 1981 First woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court
    Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. Year: 1983 First African-American in space
    Elizabeth Dole Year: 1983 First female U.S. Secretary of a branch of the U.S. Military
    Sally Kristen Ride Year: 1983 First woman in space
    Vanessa Williams Year: 1983 First African-American Miss America
    Joan Benoit Year: 1984 First women's Olympic marathon champion
    Geraldine Ferraro Year: 1984 First female Vice Presidential candidate
    Kathryn Sullivan Year: 1984 First American woman to walk in space
    Penny Harrington Year: 1985 First woman police chief of a major city
    Oprah Winfrey Year: 1986 First African-American woman to own her own television production company
    Aretha Franklin Year: 1987 First woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
    Gertrude Belle Elion Year: 1988 First woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
    Penny Marshall Year: 1988 First woman film director whose film earned more than USD 100 million at the box office
    Antonia Novello Year: 1990 First woman to be named Surgeon General of the U.S.
    Mae Carol Jemison Year: 1992 First African-American woman in space
    Maya Angelou Year: 1993 First female poet to read a poem at the Presidential inauguration
    Carol Elizabeth Moseley-Braun Year: 1993 First African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party
    Janet Reno Year: 1993 First woman to serve as Attorney General.
    Sheila Widnall Year: 1993 First female Secretary of the Air Force.
    Madeleine Albright Year: 1996 First woman Secretary of State of the United States
    Claudia Kennedy Year: 1997 First female US Army three-star general
    Jane Henney Year: 1998 First woman appointed Commissioner of the USFDA
    Eileen Collins Year: 1999 First woman astronaut to command a space shuttle mission
    Hillary Rodham Clinton Year: 2000 First former first-lady ever elected to national office
    Colin Powell Year: 2000 First African-American Secretary of State
    Halle Berry Year: 2002 First African-American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress
    Vonetta Flowers Year: 2002 First African-American woman to win a gold at the Winter Olympics
    Gene Robinson Year: 2003 First and openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in U.S.
    Condoleezza Rice Year: 2005 First female African-American Secretary of State.
    Tony Dungy Year: 2007 First African-American coach to win the Super Bowl
    Keith Ellison Year: 2007 First Muslim member of the U.S. Congress
    Drew Gilpin Faust Year: 2007 First woman president of Harvard University
    Ann Dunwoody Year: 2008 First woman four-star general in the United States military.
    Sarah Palin Year: 2008 First Republican woman to be nominated for Vice President
    Barack Hussein Obama Jr. Year: 2009 First African-American U.S. President
    Michelle Obama Year: 2009 First African-American U.S. First Lady
    These phenomenal people have shown us that if you have a clear wish and some courage in your heart, there is nothing that can hold you back from being the next archetype at whatever you are good at.

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