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| x Barack Obama |
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African American | President of the United States | Person |
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...
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| x George Washington |
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Person | President of the United States | Person |
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797)....
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| x Louis Washkansky | Person | Heart transplantation | Person |
Louis Washkansky (1913 – 21 December 1967) was the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant.
Washkansky was a Lithuanian Jew, who migrated with his friends to South Africa in 1922, aged nine, and became a grocer in Cape Town. Washkansky...
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| x Elizabeth Blackwell |
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Female | American Doctor | Person |
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was the first female doctor in the United States. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school (M.D.), a pioneer in educating women in medicine, and was prominent in...
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| x Kim Campbell |
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Female | Prime Minister of Canada | Person |
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell, PC, CC, QC (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician who was the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 25, 1993 to November 4, 1993 (132 days). Campbell was the first female Prime Minister of...
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| x Isabelle Dinoire | Person | Face transplant | Person |
Isabelle Dinoire, born 1967, was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her Labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. Prior to the operation, she could barely eat or speak, but after the operation, she can do both.
Dinoire lives in...
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| x 1st Rhode Island Regiment |
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African American | Continental Army Regiment |
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a Continental Army regiment from Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Like most regiments of the Continental Army, the unit went through several incarnations and name changes. It became...
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| x Madame C. J. Walker |
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Female | Millionaire | Person |
Madam C.J. Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, tycoon and philanthropist. She died after World War I.
Her fortune was made by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty...
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| x Luke Cage |
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African American | Superhero | Fictional Character |
Luke Cage, born Carl Lucas and also called Power Man, is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Archie Goodwin and artist John Romita, Sr., he first appeared in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 (June...
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| x Maggie L. Walker |
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Female | Chartered Bank | Person |
Maggie Lena Walker (July 15, 1864-December 15, 1934) was an American teacher, businesswoman, and first African American woman bank president. She was the first woman to charter a bank in the United States,. As a leader, she achieved successes with...
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| x Mike Melvill |
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Person | Commercial Astronaut | Person |
Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill (born November 11, 1940) is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on...
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| x John F. Kennedy |
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Catholic | President of the United States | Military Person |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29 , 1917 – November 22 , 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy , was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Major events...
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| x Claudia Castillo Sanchez | Person | Drug-free trachea transplant | Person | ||
| x Lili Elbe |
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Person | Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female | Person |
Lili Elbe (1882 - 1931) was a trans woman and one of the first identifiable recipients of male to female sex reassignment surgery. She was born as a male in Denmark. Born as Einar Mogens Wegener, she identified as male for most of her life and was a...
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| x Laika |
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Mammal | Earth orbit | Deceased Organism |
Laika (from the Russian: Лайка, literally meaning "Barker" or "Howler") was a Soviet space dog (c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) who became the first animal to orbit the Earth and the first orbital death. Little was known about the impact of space flight...
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| x Nellie Tayloe Ross |
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Female | Governor | Person |
Nellie Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American politician, the governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the National Mint from 1933-1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. To date...
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| x Bev Oda |
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Japanese Canadians | Member of the Canadian House of Commons | Person |
Beverley Joan "Bev" Oda, PC, MP (born July 27, 1944 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, as well as the first Japanese-Canadian MP and Cabinet Minister in Canadian history. She...
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| x Tim and Tom | Desegregation | First Interracial Comedy Duo | Double act |
Tim and Tom were an American comedy duo. DuPont marketing manager Tim Reid and insurance salesman Tom Dreesen met at a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting near Chicago in 1968. They were "put together to promote an anti-drug program in the local...
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| x Plankalkül | Programming language | High-level programming language | Programming Language |
Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl], "Plan Calculus") is a computer language developed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer and was...
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| x Shanna Moakler |
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Playmate | Miss USA | Person |
Shanna Lynn Moakler (born March 28, 1975) is an American model, actress, reality television star and a former beauty queen. She was the winner of the Miss New York USA pageant in 1995 and was eventually crowned as Miss USA 1995, following the...
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| x Linn Thomas | Playmate | Penthouse Pet of the Month | Person |
Linn Thomas (also known as Lynn Thomas) (born January 21, 1976 in Newport News, Virginia, United States) is an American erotic model.
Thomas became a Playboy Playmate in May 1997. In October 2000, she became a Penthouse Pet of the Month and the...
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| x Janet Pilgrim |
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Playmate | Centerfold | Person |
Janet Pilgrim (born Charlaine Edith Karalus on June 13, 1934 in Wheaton, Illinois) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playboy Playmate of the Month three times: July 1955, December 1955 and October 1956.
As Charlaine...
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| x Marianne Gaba |
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Playmate | Playmate data sheet filled out (not included) | Person |
Marianne Gaba (born November 13, 1939 in Chicago) is an American model and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue. She was the first Playmate to fill out a Playmate Data...
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| x Sue Williams | Playmate | Suicide | Person |
Sue Williams (November 14, 1945 - September 2, 1969) was an actor and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William V. Figge.
Born Karen Susan Hamilton in Glendale, California, she...
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| x Liv Lindeland |
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Playmate | Visible pubic hair | Person |
Liv Lindeland (born 7 December 1945, Norway) is a Norwegian model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1971 and as the Playmate of the Year for 1972. She was the daughter-in-law of actress-dancer Cyd...
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| x Marilyn Cole | Playmate | Full frontal nudity | Person |
Marilyn Cole (born 7 May 1949, Portsmouth, England) was Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month, as well as 1973's Playmate of the Year, the only Briton to hold that title. Her original pictorial was photographed by Alexas Urba.
Cole...
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| x Stephanie Adams |
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Playmate | LGBT spokesmodel | Person |
Stephanie Adams (born in Orange, New Jersey, July 24, 1970) is an American model and spirituality author. She was the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, has continued to appear in Playboy and has appeared as a centerfold in international editions of...
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| x Jill De Vries | Playmate | Signed centerfold | Person |
Jill De Vries (born July 20, 1953) is an American model.
De Vries was born in Kankakee, Illinois. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1975 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. De Vries's was the first...
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| x Sondra Theodore |
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Playmate | Playmate data sheet included | Person |
Sondra Theodore (born December 12, 1956 in San Bernardino, California) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. Her Playmate pictorial...
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| x Dalene Kurtis |
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Playmate | No pubic hair | Person |
Dalene Kurtis (born November 12, 1977 in Apple Valley, California) is an American model. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 2001 and Playmate of the Year for 2002.
She grew up in Bakersfield, California. Dalene began her modeling...
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| x Monica Tidwell |
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Playmate | Younger than Playboy magazine | Person |
Monica Tidwell (born January 14, 1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American model. A red-head, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1973 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker and Bill Frantz.
Tidwell...
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| x John Glenn |
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Person | Earth orbit | Person |
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, a former astronaut and United States Senator who was the first American and third person to orbit the Earth. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before...
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| x Dudley Nichols |
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Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936.
The reason for Nichols' refusal was the fact that the Screen...
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| x Yuri Gagarin |
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Person | Astronaut | Person |
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961,...
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| x Robert H. Goddard |
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created | Liquid rocket | Person |
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945), U.S. professor of physics and scientist, was a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled rocketry. He launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. From 1930 to 1935, he...
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| x Sputnik 1 |
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Object | Satellite | Satellite |
Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Спутник-1" Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk], "Satellite-1", ПС-1 (PS-1, i.e. "Простейший Спутник-1", or Elementary Satellite-1)) was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low earth...
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| x Lunar Orbiter 1 |
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Satellite | Escape velocity | Spacecraft |
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions....
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| x Lunar Orbiter 2 |
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Object | Moon landing | Spacecraft |
The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation...
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| x Lunar Orbiter 3 |
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Photograph | Far side of the Moon | Spacecraft |
The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967, designed primarily to photograph areas of the lunar surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic,...
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| x Valentina Tereshkova |
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Woman | Astronaut | Person |
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. Out of more than four hundred applicants and then out of five finalists, she was...
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| x Aleksei Leonov |
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Person | Extra-vehicular activity | Person |
Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov (Russian: Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов; born May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force General who, on March 18, 1965, became the first human to conduct a...
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| x Apollo 11 |
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Person | Moon landing | Space Mission |
The Apollo 11 mission was the first human spaceflight to land on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On...
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| x Svetlana Savitskaya |
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Woman | Extra-vehicular activity | Person |
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19...
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| x Marie Curie |
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Marie Skłodowska Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, and the...
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| x Rosenkowitz sextuplets | Sextuplets | Influence Node |
The Rosenkowitz Sextuplets (born January 11, 1974 in South Africa) were the first known set of sextuplets to survive infancy.
Born to Susan Wilson at Mowbray Maternity Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, the sextuplets are:
The births quickly drew...
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| x Dionne quintuplets |
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Quintuplets | Person |
The Dionne quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. They are the only female identical set of five ever recorded. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of...
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