Hint
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Year
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Answer
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First person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
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1927
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Charles Lindbergh
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First Formula One World Drivers' Champion
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1950
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Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina
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First person to win five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles.
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1980
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Bjorn Borg
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First person to 'rediscover' Macchu Pichu, the 'lost city of the Incas'.
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1911
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Hiram Bingham
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First man to run a mile in under four minutes.
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1954
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Roger Bannister
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First portrait of a woman to be pictured on a US postage stamp.
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1902
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Martha Washington
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First man to step on the moon.
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1969
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Neil Armstrong
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First woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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1903
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Marie Curie
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First person to use a "back first" style of high jump at an Olympic Games.
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1968
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Richard "Dick" Fosbury
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First person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest and return safely. He achieved this together with Tenzing Norgay.
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1953
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
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First woman to ride in and complete the Grand National horse race.
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1982
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Geraldine Rees
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First US President to die in office.
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1841
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William Henry Harrison
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First British Monarch crowned in the 20th Century.
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1901
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Edward VII
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First recipient of a "gold record" award for music sales.
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1942
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Glenn Miller
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First man to cycle through the Channel Tunnel.
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2014
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Chris Froome
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First person to propose the "Big Bang" theory for how the universe began.
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1931
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Georges Lemaître
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First woman to win an Indy car race.
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2008
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Danica Patrick
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First person to cross the Antarctic Circle.
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1773
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James Cook
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First person to win five consecutive Tour de France cycle races.
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1995
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Miguel Indurain
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First person to perform a successful human heart transplant.
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1967
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Christiaan Barnard
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First 'Test Tube' baby.
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1978
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Louise Brown
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First person to travel faster than the speed of sound.
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1947
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Chuck Yeager
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First person to sign the US Declaration of Independence
|
1776
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John Hancock
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First man to cross the Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
|
1859
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Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet
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First person to rediscover the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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1921
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Howard Carter
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First professional football (soccer) player to be knighted.
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1964
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Sir Stanley Matthews
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First woman to fly solo around the world,
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1964
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Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock
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First person to reach the South Pole.
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1911
|
Roald Amundsen
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First person to swim the English Channel unaided.
|
1875
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Matthew Webb
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First female individual Olympic champion.
|
1900
|
Charlotte Cooper
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First British Prime Minister (although the term wasn't officially used then)
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1721
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Sir Robert Walpole
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First person to die in a crash of a powered aeroplane.
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1908
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Thomas Selfridge
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First woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.
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2009
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Kathryn Bigelow
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First person to discover the wreck of the Titanic.
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1985
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Robert Ballard
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First person to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
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1961
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Yuri Gagarin
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