The Boys of Summer
Music Firsts
Automotive Firsts
Movie Firsts
History Firsts
100

Hammerin' Hank

Henry "Hank" Aaron

100

First song by the once and future "King"

Elvis Presley

100

1935 Oldsmobile innovation kept you from havine to shift gears manually

Automatic Transmission

100

Edison's 1896 short film "The Kiss" was the first movie to show this on film

A kiss

100

Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two to summit the world's highest mountain

Mount Everest

200

Sultan of Swat/The Bambino/Babe

George Herman "Babe" Ruth

200

First single for England's Fab Four

The Beatles'

200

1958 Chrysler let you hit the highway, set it and forget it

Cruise Control

200

After years of silent movies, 1927's "The Jazz Singer" was the first full-length movie with this

Sound

200

Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American appointed to our nation's highest court

The US Supreme Court

300

Mr. October

Reggie Jackson

300

First Album to go "Platinum" was by these CA rockers

The Eagles

300

1951 Chrysler made it easier to steer their big Land Yachts

Power Steering

300

The first full-length animated movie had a pretty maid and 7 little men

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

300

Guttenburg chose this book to be the first book printed on his printing press

The Holy Bible

400

Say 'Hey' Willie

Willie Mays

400

Sugarhill Gang had the first commercially successful Hip Hop song

Rapper's Delight

400

1940 Packard made it easier to stay cool behind the wheel

Air Conditioning

400

"The Hurt Locker" made director Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to win this award

Best Director Oscar

400

The "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister of our Mother Country

England

500

Big Papi

David Ortiz

500

First African-American to have a #1 C/W hit

Charlie Pride

500

We went AM to AM/FM to 8-Track to Cassette, then 1986 Lincoln Town Car had the first one of these

CD Player

500

Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar for her part in this 1939 Civil War epic

Gone With the Wind

500

JK Rowling became the first author to make a billion dollars for her books about a teenage wizard

The Harry Potter series