World's first

First criminal to be executed by electrocution - William Kemmler in Auburn Prison of New York (1890).

First sex change operation in the world - George (Christine) Jorgenson (1952).

First human heart transplant by Dr. Christian Barnard (1967) on Louis Washkanskym, lived 18 days.

First test tube baby - Louise Brown. In Lancastershire, England. Patrick Christopher steptoe, English obstetrician, together with Robert Edwards, biologist, succeeded in his first human invitro fertilisation (1978).

World's first Television service - The British Telecasting Corpoation (BBC) started from Alexandra palace with three hours of program a day (1936).

First US President to speak on Television - Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was the first US President to ride in a car, first American to get the Nobel prize for peace, first and only US President sworn in for a fourth term (1939).

First pilots to fly around the world non stop and non refueled - Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan, they achieved this in a specially designed aircraft named the Voyager (1986).