Famous Firsts

For no particular reason, my post today is about famous firsts. (Okay, so there is a particular reason, but you'll have to read to the end to find out.)


Famous First Lines:

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ~ 1984 by George Orwell
• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. ~ The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• It was a pleasure to burn. ~ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. ~ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Television Firsts:

• First couple to share a bed? Mary Kay and John Stearns on the 1940s sitcom, Mary Kay and Johnny.
• First openly gay character? Peter Panama on 1972's The Corner Bar.
• First interracial kiss? Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura on a 1968 episode of Star Trek.
• First commercial? Bulova Watch Company in 1941.
• First televised tour of the White House? Jackie Kennedy in 1962.
  

American Firsts:

• Anne Bradstreet — first published American woman writer (1650)
• George Washington — first President of the United States (1789)
• Elizabeth Blackwell — first American woman to receive a medical degree (1849)
• Hiram Revels — first African-American senator (ironically, he took over the term of Jefferson Davis, who had resigned to become president of the Confederacy)
• Victoria Woodhall — first woman to run for President of the United States (1872)
• Annie Moore — first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island (1892)
• Teddy Roosevelt — first American to win the Nobel peace prize (1906)
• Alan Shepard — first American in space (1961)
• Thurgood Marshall — first African-America supreme court justice (1967)

And now for the timely event that has me posting about firsts today ...

first African-American president of the United States

BARACK OBAMA

What a momentous day.

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