Further Exploration of the Factorium

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A Fact A Day # 16

The last batch of firsts is up today. Let us see them:

1. The First Skyscraper in the world: Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois which was 138 feet long and was built in 1885.

2. First manned private space flight: Space Ship 'one' which was piloted by Mike Melvill.

3. The First cloned mammal: Dolly, the lamb who was cloned in 1966.

4. First Indian sponsored TV serial: Hum Log which was telecasted in 1984.

5. The First novel in the World: Cyropedia which was a historical Greek Novel written about the life of Cyrus in somewhere around 360 B.C.

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