Old Photos of "Firsts"

Old Photos of "Firsts"    The first wheelie ever photographed. [1936]     The earliest photo of Abraham Lincoln. [1840]   Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time in a presidential election. [1920]     The Wright brothers’ first flight. The photo was taken so that people would believe them. [1903]     Sally Halterman, the first woman granted a license to operate a motorcycle in Washington, D.C. [1937]     The first photo of The Beatles with Ringo Starr as the drummer. [August 22, 1962]     The world’s first underwater photo. [1893]     Madam C.J. Walker. The first woman in America to become a millionaire by her own endeavors. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of beauty and hair products for black women.   The first team photo in baseball history. [1858]     The first McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino. [1948]     Photographs of the first modern Olympic Games, Athens. [1896]     Jim Henson creating his first Kermit puppet. [1950s]     Bertha Benz, with the help of her two sons, became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance – 66 miles. [5 August, 1888]     Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over the Niagara Falls in a barrel on her 63rd birthday. [1901]     Sputnik 1, the first satellite, being launched into orbit by the Soviet Union. [1957]         Recipient of the world’s first human heart transplant, Louis Washkansky, in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, three days after the surgery. [6 December 1967]     Otto Lilienthal becoming the first person to make a successful glider flight. [1894]     Queen Elizabeth II giving her first televised Christmas address. [1957]     The first photograph ever taken. It shows the view outside of a window in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France. [1842]     The first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration, taken in 1857 at the swearing in of James Buchanan.       Henry Ford poses on the first car he built, the Ford Quadricycle. [1896]     ENIAC, the world’s first computer. [1940]     The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. [1931]     Howard Carter flanked by assistants as they view the sarcophagus of Egyptian King Tutankhamen for the first time in thousands of years, Egypt. [3 January, 1924]     The first public showing of the bikini, Paris. [1946]     The first photo taken from space. A V2 rocket was launched straight up, with the film protected in a steel case. [1946]   Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South; followed by US Marshals because of threats on her life. [1960]     The first bananas arrive in Norway. [1905]     Construction of the world’s first Ferris wheel for the Chicago world’s fair. [1893]     Installing the first neon sign on the Las Vegas Strip. [1941]     The first riders of New York City’s first subway. [1904]   No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com/ Version: 2016.0.7539 / Virus Database: 4556/12091 - Release Date: 04/24/16