2006 Dow closes above 12,000 for the first time
2006 North Korea conducts first atomic weapons test
2006 Dow closes above 11,800 for the first time
2006 Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years
2005 First human face transplant is performed in France
2005 Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launches, first flight since Columbia disaster
2005 Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France
2005 Steve Fossett flys the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world
2005 Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958
2004 Vaughn Meader, comic/musician, The First Family, dies at 62
2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91
2004 J. J. Jackson, DJ/VJ, first VJ on MTV, dies at 62
2004 Olivia Goldsmith, writer, The First Wives Club, dies at 54
2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97
2003 Althea Gibson, tennis/golf great, first black woman to win Wimbledon, dies at 76
2003 Maynard Jackson, lawyer/mayor, first black mayor of Atlanta, dies at 65
2003 Ilan Ramon, astronaut, ", first Israeli in space, mission specialist on Columbia, STS-107, ", dies at 48
2003 Kalpana Chawla, astronaut, ", first Asian Indian woman in space, payload specialist on the Columbia, STS-107,, ", dies at 41
2002 Joseph Nathan Kane, trivia expert, Famous First Facts, dies at 103
2002 "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89
2001 Dr. Christiaan Barnard, surgeon, ", performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967, ", dies at 78
2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83
2000 Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate
1998 Tom Bradley, mayor, first black mayor of LA, dies at 80
1998 President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky
1998 Alan Shepard, astronaut, first American in space, dies at 74
1998 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
1997 Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82
1997 First of America Senior Golf Classic
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1994 Jackie Kennedy, First Lady
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first
1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins
1986 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
1981 Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
1979 On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic
1968 "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 17 performances
1961 Joan Delk, born in Tampa, Florida, LPGA golfer, 1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th
1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 84 performances
1958 First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1954 Annette Guest, U.S. singer, First Choice
1951 Al Greenwood, keyboardist, Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time
1950 Rochelle Fleming, U.S. soul vocalist, First Choice, Smarty Pants
1947 Terry Williams, rocker, First Edition
1947 Dominique Sanda, born in Paris, France, actress, 1900, First Love
1946 Laura Bush, American First Lady
1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California
1941 Marina Ripa, Rome, Italy, countess/writer, My First 40 Years
1934 Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show and lived in a virtual muse
1929 Jackie Kennedy, First Lady
1927 Rosalynn Carter, American First Lady
1924 Florence Harding, American First Lady
1912 Lady Bird Johnson, American First Lady
1912 Pat Nixon, 1st lady, 1968-74
1912 Claudia Johnson, American First Lady
1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London
1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1907 Renzo Cesana, Rome, Italy, TV host, First Date, Continental
1907 Jessie Matthews, born in London, England, actress, Gangway, First a Girl
1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1876 Eliza Johnson, American First Lady
1864 Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1860 Florence Harding, American First Lady
1852 Louisa Catherine Adams, American First Lady
1818 Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73
1810 Eliza Johnson, American First Lady
1805 Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1789 French States-General for It first since 1614 together
1775 Louisa Catherine Adams, American First Lady
1744 Abigail Adams, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 2nd first lady, 1797-1801
1731 Martha Washington, American First Lady
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