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"The first successful rover landing on July 4th, 1997, created a whole era of Mars exploration."
"Niger made history with its first-ever peaceful, democratic transition of power."
"Victor, Finals MVP, and that is officially 11 championships, tying Bill Russell."
"The unemployment gap between black and white Americans has been closed for the first time in American history."
"It's a momentous time in the history of the world. The world's population just ticked over eight billion."
"Now he'd be the first Black owner of an NBA team."
"75 years ago today he broke baseball's color barrier, changing the game and America."
"A truly legendary moment in speedrun history."
"That's one small step for men, one giant leap for mankind."
"For the first time in American history, the number of white people went down."
"Nikki Haley is the first female minority governor in the country's history."
"It's the first time in 50 years that a human exploration spacecraft has left low Earth orbit and been sent to the Moon."
"It's a tremendous moment because we never thought that someone as we were growing up in the political system, we never thought we would see this day, and now, we have seen it."
"It's a historic moment, Kamala Harris will be the first woman vice president."
"The first successful atom bomb test was conducted."
"I would rather listen to someone who is top tier at one thing like the blues like SRV than somebody who is pretty good at a bunch of things."
"The Browns finally won their first ever playoff game since 1999."
"Our nation's first woman vice president, Vice President Kamala Harris."
"Man lands on the moon in 1969, and there were about 3.6 billion of us."
"It was the first crewed mission with American crew from American soil in an American spacecraft in a very, very long time."
"We have the first female Treasury Secretary of all time, Janet Yellen."
"When it opened in 1991, HMP Belmarsh was the first male prison to be built in London for over a hundred years."
"COUNTING OUT THE DAYS, MINUTES, AND HOURS AND SECONDS UNTIL THE NEXT MAN AND FIRST WOMAN WILL SET FOOT ON THE SOUTH POLE OF THE MOON."
"For the first time in human history, we have a glimmering little hope of living in balance with nature."
"We're at the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
"It's the first time in history our people have been able to participate in this market."
"It's gonna be basically what brings astronauts back to the surface of the Moon after more than 50 years."
"Hallie is about to become the first black mermaid in the entire history of Hollywood."
"Can you believe it’s been 50 years since we landed on the moon?"
"Katanji Brown Jackson is in fact the first black woman to join the Supreme Court and the media are just beside themselves with joy over it."
"Kamala Harris becoming America's first female, first black, and first South Asian American vice president is a rejection of white supremacist politics."
"She's the first woman to ever be elected Attorney General of the state of New York."
"She's the first African American woman to ever be elected to state-wide office of any kind in New York."
"We've just hit the absolute lowest unemployment rate for African Americans in the history of our country."
"Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar, was not allowed to attend the premiere because she was black."
"In 1992, Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space."
"I may not be the first woman vice president, but I will be the last."
"This is the first time in human history that a cryptocurrency has been formalized at this scale."
"The NHS was the first healthcare system in the world to deliver a COVID-19 vaccine outside clinical trials."
"Morocco again shocks the world and becomes the first African nation to ever reach the semi-finals of the World Cup"
"Zaila Avant-garde wins national spelling bee, becomes Bee's first African-American champ."
"Humans will fly around the Moon for the first time in 50 years."
"Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind... during the Apollo program."
"This was a moment that will go down in history, multiple prototypes and test tanks have brought us to this point where we see a complete starship vehicle right there standing on its own."
"This is a milestone that will go down in history, a first that will be improved upon over the next decade or two which makes a very exciting future ahead."
"Lakers made history Saturday night, overcoming the odds to win the first and hardest NBA Cup in league history."
"For the first time since Apollo 17, there is a countdown underway to launch a vehicle to the moon from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center."
"Young elected city's first black mayor. It is a perfect representation of the civil rights movement's positive impact."
"Delaney was commissioned as a major in the U.S army, the first black commissioned officer in American history."
"The 8 billionth baby born today is not only making history but becoming an instant icon."
"Starting to wrap up a historic era of space exploration and launches."
"The Soviet Union achieved the first successful launch."
"Tennessee was the last state that ratified the 19th amendment."
"Cynisca of Sparta became the first woman to win at the Olympic Games."
"For the first time ever, the Russian people could choose their own government."
"It is a wonderful moment for America that someone like Kamala Harris could become vice president."
"Chicago Bulls NBA champions for the first time since 1998."
"The victory provides hope that the country, which is co-hosting the World Cup with Australia, can taste knockout football for the first time."
"We're calling it Disney 100 Years of Wonder and as Bob said it's going to be the biggest celebration in our company's history."
"It was the first time anybody outside America made a skyscraper."
"Doug Williams who was the first African-American QB to win a Super Bowl."
"Lotus were the first to ever fit aerofoil wings to a Formula One car."
"Hill knew that if he won this race, he'd be the first to win what we now know as the triple crown."
"Ryloth would see the longest stretch of peace in ten thousand years."
"Renewables in Europe have beat fossil fuels in electricity generation for the first time in history."
"Senol Gunes is the man who guided Turkey to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup."
"Mark Stoops has officially passed Bear Bryant for the most wins in Kentucky history."
"The United States generated more electricity from renewable sources than from coal for the first time."
"It's such an interesting fact... alf cap alpha has the first female vice president."
"Windows, according to the book, 'The Making of Microsoft,' 1989 also saw Windows reaching the surprising heights of becoming Microsoft’s best selling single product."
"Wendell Scott had become the first black man to race a stock car in the American South."
"There's something to be said for the fact that we even made it to this point to begin with."
"Four centuries ago this year a book was published which I think is the greatest work of English prose ever written."
"We wouldn't be where we are if it weren't for Baby Fae. We're not as crazy as everyone believed."
"SuperM became the first Korean act to hit number one on the Billboard 200."
"Tuberculosis became curable for the first time in human history."
"People are now for the first time in all of history free of debt."
"The first man-made object to reach the border of space."
"Frankie became the first black man to dance with a white girl on live national television."
"It could be said that the start of the modern world as we know it began on December 23, 1947."
"VF 2 was the first ever game to use motion capture technology."
"Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman, first Black woman, the first woman from South Asia."
"Within one generation, I stand before you as the first woman Vice President of the United States."
"African-American unemployment has hit the lowest rate ever recorded in history."
"Super Sonic passenger travel, a fabled dream of aerospace engineers until one day we just broke the speed of sound."
"I survived 1999-2000 and this right this is in the books this is going down in the books."
"2019 marks the 400th year anniversary since the begin of slavery in 1619."
"It's officially their first piece of major silverware, so it's something to appreciate."
"The ending of slavery was the extension of self-ownership to all human beings."
"Joe Biden is and the first ever woman of color as vice president this is historic."
"We went from the Wright brothers to jet engines, literally in a single generation."
"New Zealanders allowed women the vote in 1893, the first country in the whole of planet Earth to do so."
"One of only three players now in NBA history with MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, and Finals MVP."
"This is a very big moment in Operation Warp Speed history."
"Madame Caroline Severance was the first to register and cast her ballot."
"It's a very special year for Blackpool Pleasure Beach as they are celebrating their 125th season."
"The metro magic advance to the 2021 ALCS it's their first playoff series victory ever."
"May was the first-ever month in the UK in which it was completely coal-free for its electricity needs."
"And that's it! Jaws came out in 1975 and changed the film industry forever."
"Liberia became the only country on the continent of Africa in 1822 that said no to slavery"
"Meanwhile in Pakistan, they got their first female Supreme Court judge sworn in of all time."
"It's a confirmed kill. America has its first jet ace."
"...it's the 20th anniversary of the smoking ban in public places in Ireland."
"The Space Race saw the United States on a trajectory to be the first nation to put a man on the moon."
"Humanity stands in two ages: before we went to the moon, and after we hit the moon."
"You can say that the jet age really began when Pan American put their 707 into service because that was the sustained service the world never looked back after that."
"Lloyd Austin will be the first African American to ever helm the Defense Department in its history."
"This is the first time in history in which women have found themselves on equal footing with men when it comes to finances and professionally speaking."
"Together we have done the impossible; we have made history."
"One of the greatest victories for the advocates of women's rights was ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920."
"The first African American that was elected will be a moment in history, no matter what and a good moment."
"Next year is the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which was the decisive step in the political emancipation of women in this country."
"Our 250th birthday is coming up soon, July 4th, 2026."
"Piggly Wiggly was the first to open a grocery store where you could just go in, wander around, and buy what you want."
"Sri Lanka elected the world's very first female head of state, and she served from 1960 to 65."
"The first black US senator, Senator Revels, a very big monumental step."
"Women's suffrage was granted, abortion was legalized in 1920, making the Soviet Union the first country in the world to do so."
"The birth of information technology."
"2023 very well may be looked back on as the rise of a new age, the AI years."
"He was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera back in 1955."
"It's never too late, 60 years of Independence."
"The first elevated electric in the world was in the World's Fair."
"He became Sparta's first ever sole king."
"I think the Gutenberg press was a turning point for human beings."
"Albert Street is the first new station to be built within Brisbane's CBD in over 120 years."
"That's something that has never been done before in recorded world history."