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1809 --- 1st woman to be issued a US patent. She was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread to make bonnets
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Edward Smith
1831 --- 1st indicted bank robber in the US. He was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison.
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Mary Lyon
1837 --- founded 1st woman's college in US, Mt. Holyoke College.
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1837 --- 1st English monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.
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William Henry Harrison
1841 --- 1st US president to die in office. At 32 days, he also had the shortest term in office.
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1841 --- 1st recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
1849 --- 1st woman to receive medical degree in US. (from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.)
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell
1853 --- 1st American woman ordained a minister by a recognized denomination (Congregational.)
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Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet)
1859 --- 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
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Jules Leotard
1859 --- world's 1st flying trapeze circus act. Performed at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, without safety nets.
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William Carney
1863 --- 1st black to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor (on July 18,1863 at Fort Wagner, S.C.)
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Mary Walker
1865 --- 1st (and only) woman to receive the US Medal of Honor. She was a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1916, however, when the Army purged its files to cut down on what they thought were "unwarranted" issues. It wasn't re-instated until 1976.
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David Glasgow Farragut
1866 --- 1st Admiral in US Navy.
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Frank, Simeon, and William
1866 --- Committed the first US train robbery. On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an eastbound train in Indiana wearing masks and toting guns. After emptying one safe and tossing the other out the window, the robbers jumped off the train and made an easy getaway.
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Sir John Alexander McDonald
1867 --- 1st Prime Minister of Canada.
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