In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

On May twenty-ninth, nineteen fifty-three, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to reach the summit of Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The American Le Mans Series became the first racing event to use the protocols in its Green Challenge competition.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Soon after his death, Roberto Clemente became the first Latino player to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel Prize in nineteen eleven, this time in chemistry.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In India,he became the first American president to openly support a permanent seat for that country on the United Nations Security Council.

VOA: special.2010.11.13

Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She became the first African-American woman to earn a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The movie was released in nineteen eighty-seven and became the first Palestinian film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Standing in front of the Capitol, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

In two thousand seven, she became the first black woman to receive the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

In June,the Speed Sisters became the first all-female racing team to compete in the Speed Test, a popular race in the West Bank.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Two years ago, it became the first school in the country to join the Confucius Classroom program.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He became the first known American suicide bomber last October when he blew himself up in Somalia.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

She became the first Hispanic justice on the United States Supreme Court in two thousand nine.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Last month,Rita Levi-Montalcini became the first Nobel Prize Laureate to reach the age of one hundred.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

But before NASA could send an astronaut into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person to travel in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He became the first Latino baseball player to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

In nineteen ninety-eight, he became the first athlete from Kenya to compete in the Winter Games.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

That was in 1933. 4 years later, he became the first president inaugurated in January.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

In nineteen forty-seven, Jackie Robinson became the first black to play modern major league baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

But it was also Nixon who became the first and only American president to resign.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

General Motors became the first automaker to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

This year,Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first German leader to attend the ceremony in Paris.

VOA: special.2009.11.14