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Being the 1st man to do anything guarantees your place in history.

In this post we’re saluting the 1st men in history who did the impossible so their name would live on throughout the centuries.

Who were the 1st Men in History to Accomplish Various Milestones?

Who was the 1st man on the moon?

Neil Armstrong

Who was the 1st man in space?

Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

Who was the 1st man to run under 10 seconds?

Carl Lewis

Who was the 1st man to run a 4 minute mile?

Sir Roger Bannister

Who was the 1st man to drive?

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Who was the 1st man climb Everest?

Tenzing Norgay

Who was the 1st man to swim the English Channel?

Captain Matthew Webb

Who was the 1st man to reach the North Pole?

Robert Peary

Who was the 1st man to reach the South Pole?

Roald Amundsen

Who was the 1st man to fly solo around the world?

Wiley Post

Who was the 1st man to fly?

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Who was the 1st man to orbit the Earth?

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

Who was the 1st man to sail around the world? 

Ferdinand Magellan

Who was the 1st man to jump from space?

Felix Baumgartner

Who was the 1st man to run a marathon in under 2 hours?

Eliud Kipchoge

Who was the 1st man to reach Antarctica?

Roald Amundsen

Who was the 1st man to lift 500kg?

Eddie Hall

Who was the 1st man to take a hatrick in a test match?

Billy Bates

Who was Time Magazine’s 1st man of the year?

Charles Lindbergh

Who was the real 1st man to find America? 

Leif Eriksson

Who was the 1st man to captain England Football team?

Cuthbert Ottaway

Who was the 1st ever heavyweight boxing champion?

John L. Sullivan

Who was the 1st man to land on Omaha Beach?

Leonard T. Schroeder

Who was the 1st man to die in WW1?

Albert Mayer

Who was the 1st man to die in WW2?

Franciszek Honiok

Who was the first man to break the sound barrier?

Chuck Yeager

The 1st man to speak openly on gay rights?

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Who was the 1st man to make and use a microscope?

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Who was the 1st man to make a computer?

Charles Babbage

Who was the 1st man to discover electricty?

Benjamin Franklin

Who was the 1st man to make a phone call?

Alexander Graham Bell

Who was the 1st man to record sound?

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

Who was the 1st man on television?

John Logie Baird

Who was the 1st man to ride around the world on a bicycle?

Thomas Stevens

Who was the 1st man to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

James Cameron

Who was the 1st man to swim the English Channel?

Captain Matthew Webb

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