To our everlasting shame, we led the world in this nuclear arms race sixteen years ago when we dropped the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Let us therefore put first things first, and make sure of preserving the human race at whatever the temporary price may be ''.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event

* In Bananagrams, players place tiles from a pool into crossword-style word arrangements in a race to see who can finish the pool of tiles first.

* 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

The Donkey brae run is held on the first Sunday of the festival and is popular nationwide, with a 7-mile race, 2-mile run and a 1-mile run for children.

In 1964, the Birds, piloted by Hank Bauer in his first year of managing the ballclub, were involved in a tight pennant race against the Yankees and White Sox.

Those against the Wild Card see it as diminishing the importance of the pennant race and the regular season, with the true race often being for second rather than first place, while those in favor of it view it as an opportunity for teams to have a shot at the playoffs even when they have no chance of a first-place finish in their division, thus maintaining fan interest later in the season.

I am above race ..." The first English translation of Doctor Zhivago was hastily produced by Max Hayward and Manya Harari in order to coincide with overwhelming public demand.

The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

When they first race against each other, Liddell beats Abrahams.

* 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.

Peterson was the first student at the then German-language University of Tartu to acknowledge his Estonian origin, is commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and considered the founder of modern Estonian poetry.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

Minnesota began the 2006 season 4 – 2 ( Childress became the first coach in Vikings history to start 2 – 0 in his first year ), but would finish the year at 6 – 10, receiving the 7th pick in the NFL Draft ; with it, the Vikings selected Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma.

When the Vikings played the Chicago Bears in the first of their two games, Peterson broke the record for single game All-Purpose ( rushing, receiving, kick returning ) yards ( 361 total yards, 224 rushing ).

Thomas Mundy Peterson was the first African American to vote after the amendment's adoption.

* March 31 – Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African-American to vote in an election.

The use of systematic cyclic codes, which encode messages by adding a fixed-length check value, for the purpose of error detection in communication networks, was first proposed by W. Wesley Peterson during 1961.

* Nicknames are sometimes based on a person's last name (" Tommo " for Bill Thompson ) or a combination of first and last name (" Droopy " for Andrew Peterson, or " A-Rod " for Alex Rodriguez )

In 1964, Johnson named Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson to be the first presidential assistant for consumer affairs.

The very first newspaper in Clay County was the Peterson Patriot which started circulation in 1880.

In 1855, Charles Shreeve Peterson and his family became the first white settlers to take up permanent residence in the Morgan Valley after cutting a road through Weber Canyon.

On the first play, the Sooners scored on a 25-yard Adrian Peterson run and successfully kicked the point after touchdown.

The first Sheriff of Manila was James Peterson.

In an article by Peterson and Simkus, they state, " While the evidence of the first half of this century suggests strong links between social status and cultural taste, there is growing evidence that there is no longer a one-to-one correspondence between taste and status group membership in advanced postindustrial societies like the United States.

The Winfield brothers honed their athletic skills in St. Paul's Oxford playground, where coach Bill Peterson was one of the first to take the young Winfield under his wing.

In 1870 a post office was established in Peterson and Even A. Hjelie was appointed first postmaster.

The Pie Lady ( s ) of Winthrop — first 90 +- year-old Mina Peterson and then 40-year Lyle's pie baker Karen Melius — were featured in numerous newspaper stories and television reports from 1980 through 1996.

Founded by Wisner businessman Andy Peterson, it featured livestock show barns, a dance hall and an ice skating rink and was the site of Wisner's first baseball diamond.

* Dr. Lysle Peterson, who is credited with creating the world's first complete computer model of the human circulatory system, as well as the first modern method of recording arterial blood pressure, is a 1938 graduate of Forest Lake High School.

* Gervase Peterson ( born 1969 ), contestant on Survivor: Borneo, the first season of the program.

The first bishop was Peter B. Peterson.

Petersburg was founded circa 1745 by Jacob Peterson, who owned the area's first merchandising store.