The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
- Harry Lauder
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Fun Facts: Famous Firsts
In 1897, John J. McDermott won the first Boston Marathon - the first of its type in the United States.
In 1911, Marie Curie became the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in physics (1903) and the second in chemistry.
In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier. He piloted a Bell X-1 rocket at 670 miles per hour in level flight - faster than the speed of sound.
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