First Person To...

Guess the people who did each of these things before anyone else.

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Last updated: October 6, 2020

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First Person To...	Person
...stand on the Moon	Neil Armstrong
...land in the Americas (from Europe)	Leif Erikson
...reach the peak of Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary \| Tenzing Norgay
...rule over all of modern Japan	Emperor Meiji
...observe a microorganism	Robert Hooke
...rule over an area of 2,100,000 square miles	Darius I
...win two Nobel Prizes	Marie Curie
...be assassinated while serving as US President	Abraham Lincoln
...reach Challenger Deep	Jacques Piccard \| Don Walsh
...formulate a principle relating to buoyancy	Archimedes
...rule for over 70 years	Louis XIV
...survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel	Annie Edson Taylor
...serve as Prime Minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
...see a moon of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei
...serve as Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto)	Robert Walpole