The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

Two parliamentary by-elections in early 1994, both won by Chama Cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ), were the first-ever multiparty elections in Tanzanian history.

The Madrid winning sequence was ended more significantly in 1981 when Real Sociedad won their first-ever title.

While in the Atlantic League, the Surf won the first-ever Atlantic League championship in 1998 while also hosting the inaugural Atlantic League All-Star game.

He is a ten-time All-Star and won the 2007 All-Star Game MVP Award for a three-hit performance that included the event's first-ever inside-the-park home run.

The Heat were the biggest surprise and the league's most improved team in the season ; they won their first-ever Atlantic Division title with a 61 – 21 record, the best regular season record in Heat history at the time.

The Hornets also won their first-ever division title, winning the Southwest Division.

West was named the first-ever Finals MVP ; this remains the only time that a member of the losing team has won the award.

In the 2009-10 competition, High Octane, Conway won the first-ever National Robotics Championship.

In 1959, the Bees won their first-ever PCL pennant, edging the Vancouver Mounties by 1½ games.

With a 48-21 victory, the Buccaneers won their first-ever Super Bowl.

They won their first-ever title on September 17, 2006, defeating the Akron Aeros 8 – 5 in a rematch of the series from the previous year.

** Tarah Gieger of Puerto Rico won the gold medal in the first-ever women's supercross race.

In November 1917, it won a plurality of the national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections ( to the Russian Constituent Assembly ), but soon split and the remaining faction of this party who remained loyal to Alexander Kerensky was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the course of the Russian Civil War and subsequent persecution.

The previous year, Sir Barton had won the first-ever U. S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, though it was not called that at the time.

The state championships won by the all-black school were the first-ever for Indianapolis.

That same year, the NDP won a by-election in Quebec to take its first-ever seat in the province.

The team split the next four games, and in Game 6, the Lakers won 110 – 95 and won the first-ever NBA championship.

At Survivor Series, Van Dam participated in the first-ever Elimination Chamber match for Triple H's World Heavyweight Championship, but it was won by Shawn Michaels.

In 2011, the men's soccer team won the West Coast Conference title, beating the University of San Diego, 1-0, giving Saint Mary's an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament and their first-ever WCC title.

That touchdown won the first-ever American Football League game, as the Broncos defeated the Boston Patriots.

He caught the eye of the WWF where he made his debut in 1979 and won the first-ever Battle Royal in Madison Square Garden, New York City.

He won all four Grand Slam junior titles in 1983 to become the first-ever player to achieve the " Junior Grand Slam ".

Charles Harve, who recently won the `` Most Muscular Man '' subdivision award in the Mr. Canada event ; ;

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

Of the 24 pitchers who have won the award, 15 are right-handed while 9 are left-handed.

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' first baseman, won the inaugural award.

Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ).

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Greetings was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Silver Bear award.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

The following year, Robinson won the American League Most Valuable Player award, thus becoming the first ( and so far only ) man to win the MVP in each league ( Robinson won the NL MVP in 1961, leading the Reds to the pennant ).

He won the Man of the Match award for both matches and was also named Man of the Series.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Other editions of Call of Cthluhu have also won Origins Awards including the Hall of Fame award.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

" Super Joe " Charbonneau won the American League Rookie of the Year award.

Grady Sizemore, who had a. 995 fielding percentage and only two errors in 405 chances, won the Gold Glove award, Cleveland's first since 2001.

Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead ( Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins ).

It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work.

In 1974, Mike Marshall won the award, becoming the first relief pitcher to win the award.