We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

It has a hull patterned on that of the United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine.

The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.

* 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

The demand for ormers is such that they led to the world's first underwater arrest, when Mr. Kempthorne-Leigh of Guernsey was arrested by a police officer in full diving gear when illegally diving for ormers.

Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

* 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

* 2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

* Manville B. and Josiah Ober 2003, A company of citizens: what the world's first democracy teaches leaders about creating great organizations.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

After the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard claimed, the Atlanteans became concerned that radioactive air might flow into the world's interior, and so some emerged in their flying saucers in an act of self-defense.

On June 14, 1940, while the world's attention was focused on the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany a day earlier, the Soviet military blockade of Estonia went into effect, and two Soviet bombers downed Finnish passenger airplane " Kaleva " flying from Tallinn to Helsinki carrying three diplomatic pouches from the U. S. legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki.

File: Gijeong-ri Flag. jpg | The world's third tallest flagpole flying a Flag of North Korea.

This was shortly followed by the Blériot XII, a high-wing two-seater monoplane first flown on 21 May, and for a while Blériot concentrated on flying this machine, flying it with a passenger on 2 July, and on 12 July making the world's first flight with two passengers, one of whom was Santos Dumont.

For example, Concorde cruised at Mach 2. 05 with its engines giving an SFC of 1. 195 lb /( lbf · h ) ( see below ); this is equivalent to an SFC of 0. 51 lb /( lbf · h ) for an aircraft flying at Mach 0. 85, which would be better than even modern engines, it was the world's most efficient jet engine.

Initially flying under the radar, the film wound up winning the Golden Lion, the highest award at the world's oldest film festival.

Kim carried a 17 – 1 – 1 professional record into the Mancini fight and had won 8 bouts by KO before flying to Las Vegas in the WBA as the world's number 1 challenger to world lightweight champion Mancini.

* The German Horten Ho 229 of 1945-the world's first twin jet engine pure flying wing

The cranes are large to very large birds, including the world's tallest flying bird.

The Bar-headed Goose is thought to be one of the world's highest flying birds, having been heard flying across Mount Makalu ( the fifth highest mountain on earth at ) and apparently seen over Mount Everest (, although this is a second hand report with no verification ).

It is thus one of the world's heaviest flying birds.

Bustards are all fairly large with the two largest species, the Kori Bustard ( Ardeotis kori ) and the Great Bustard ( Otis tarda ), being frequently cited as the world's heaviest flying birds.

The feathertail glider ( Acrobates pygmaeus ), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying phalanger and flying mouse, is the world's smallest gliding possum and is named for its long feather-shaped tail.

With a mean weight of around, it is the world's heaviest flying bird species on average although large male bustards and swans can exceed the pelican in maximum weight.

Although they had little, if any, formal training in aeronautics or related fields, the Hortens designed some of the most advanced aircraft of the 1940s, including the world's first jet-powered flying wing, the Horten Ho 229.

The Horten Ho 229, the world's first jet-powered flying wing

The world's largest aerial firefighting flying boats, the Martin Mars Water Bombers, make their home on nearby Sproat Lake.

* Missiles: The Pulse jet powered V-1 flying bomb was the world's first cruise missile, Rockets progressed enormously: V-2 rocket, Katyusha rocket artillery and air launched rockets.

The world's third-tallest flagpole flying a Flag of North Korea | North Korean flag over Kijŏng-dong near Panmunjom.

At the end of the valley is an " oasis ", with calmer colours and plants, where the spectacular ride Air, the world's first B & M flying coaster, can be found.

Bogotá holds the world's first Car Free Referendum ( which passes with flying colors ).

Fulton, a mechanical engineer from the Royal Field Artillery, had been an early enthusiast of military flying and had attended the world's first air show at Rheims in 1909.