His son Snorri Thorfinnsson was the first American born ( somewhere between 1010 and 1013 ) to European ( Icelandic ) immigrant parents.

He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.

Commentators have questioned whether Obama, who was elected the first black President of the United States, is black enough, as his mother was white American, and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant.

The first American taiko group, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, was formed in 1968 by Seiichi Tanaka, a postwar immigrant who studied taiko in Japan and brought the styles and teachings to America.

The first federal immigrant inspection station was an enormous three-story tall structure, with out-buildings, built of Georgia pine, containing all of the amentities that were thought to be necessary.

In Scotland, chips were first sold in Dundee, "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy – the chip – was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

More than 16 million people are of foreign / immigrant descent ( first and second generation, including mixed heritage and ethnic German repatriates and their descendants ).

Initially confined to the immigrant communities during the mid-19th century, it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and by the first decade of the 20th century it was being celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial and religious backgrounds.

The first entirely Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions.

* Annie Moore, first immigrant to USA to be processed at Ellis Island

The first known Japanese immigrant to Canada, Manzo Nagano, landed in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1877.

A modified proposal, called " Mars to Stay ", involves not returning the first immigrant / explorers immediately, or ever.

* 1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

Dundee City Council claims that "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy-the chip-was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

In Ireland, the first fish and chips were sold by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Cervi, who mistakenly stepped off an America-bound ship at Cobh ( then called Queenstown ) in County Cork and walked all the way to Dublin.

* Jacob Frankfort ( born 1801 ), first Jewish immigrant from Poland to Los Angeles, United States

The Otago Settlement, sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, took concrete form in Otago in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock ( on the Firth of Clyde ) — the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing.

The music was composed by the German immigrant Fredrik Pacius, with ( original Swedish ) words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and was performed for the first time on 13 May 1848.

Celtic, English, German and Scandinavian folk traditions predominated in this first wave of European immigrant music.

Other healthy typhoid carriers identified in the first quarter of the 20th century include Tony Labella, an Italian immigrant, presumed to have caused over 100 cases ( with five deaths ); an Adirondack guide dubbed Typhoid John, presumed to have infected 36 people ( with two deaths ); and Alphonse Cotils, a restaurateur and bakery owner.

The Alachua area appears to have been the first area occupied by the immigrant Oconees, the original Seminoles, about 1740.

Paul's first experiences with hockey came at a young age in the basement of the Chinese restaurant operated by Charlie Chin, an immigrant who settled in Lucknow.

Plantinga's father was a first generation immigrant, born in the Netherlands.

In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.

During the first pass of Phase 3,, references to the actual addresses of index words and electronic switches are collected and the availability table is updated.

This first attempt at an amendment failed to pass, falling short of the required two-thirds majority on June 15, 1864, in the House of Representatives.

A hit by pitch is not counted statistically as a walk, though the effect is mostly the same, with the batter receiving a free pass to first base.

If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played ; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the hand is redealt by the original dealer, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.

The first line of foot was to pass the stream first and march as far to the other side as could be conveniently done.

These guns ( some of which were of the three barrelled kind first seen at Elixheim the previous year ) enjoyed good arcs of fire, able to fully cover the approaches of the plateau of Jandrenouille over which the Allied infantry would have to pass.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

In the first play of the second overtime, Jake Delhomme hit receiver Steve Smith with a 69-yard touchdown pass to win the game 29 – 23.

Bengals quarterback Virgil Carter would be the first player to successfully implement Walsh's system, leading the NFL in pass completion percentage in 1971.

He published numerous articles in publications such as Collier's Weekly and Harper's Weekly, and he chose the first College Football All-America Team. 1906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Bradbury Robinson | Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass

The first legal pass was thrown by Bradbury Robinson on September 5, 1906, playing for coach Eddie Cochems, who developed an early but sophisticated passing offense at Saint Louis University.

Because the first duke had no surviving sons, the title was allowed ( by a special Act of Parliament ) to pass to his eldest daughter in her own right.

If that were to happen, the Churchill titles would pass to the Earl of Jersey, the heir-male of Anne Villiers, Countess of Jersey, daughter of Elizabeth Egerton, Duchess of Bridgwater, a younger daughter of the first Duke.

Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the renamed franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons.

In the second, since he had no heirs and if he should die abroad the estates would pass to his sister, Mary, he entailed the lands of the earldom on his first cousin, Hugh Vere.

Illegal and experimental forward passes had been attempted as early as 1876, but the first legal forward pass in American football took place in 1906, after a change in rules.

Eddie Cochems, " Father of the Forward Pass ", 19071906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Bradbury Robinson | Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass

Most sources credit St. Louis University's Bradbury Robinson from Bellevue, Ohio with throwing the first legal forward pass.

On September 5, 1906, in a game against Carroll College, Robinson's first attempt at a forward pass fell incomplete and resulted in a turnover under the 1906 rules.

While St. Louis University completed the first legal forward pass in the first half of September, this accomplishment was in part because most schools did not begin their football schedule until early October.