Antonia Novello
1990 --- 1st woman and first Hispanic to be named Surgeon General of the US.

Douglas L. Wilder
1990 --- 1st elected black US Governor. (Virginia)

Janet Elaine Adkins
1990 --- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

Nadine Strossen
1991 --- 1st female President of the ACLU.

Billy Crystal
1992 --- 1st guest on "The Tonight Show," when Jay Leno permanently replaced Johnny Carson as host.

Mae Carol Jemison
1992 --- 1st black woman in space
(on the Endeavor.)

Sidney Portier
1992 --- 1st black motion picture performer to be honored with the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute (AFI), the highest honor given for a career in film.

Aileen Wuornos
1992 --- 1st female serial killer in America. In 1992 she was charged with the shooting of five middle-aged men she met on highways by hitch hiking. She confessed to shooting seven men in self-defence and was eventually executed on 9th October 2002.

Maya Angelou
1993 --- 1st female poet to read a poem at a US presidential inauguration. She read "On the Pulse of Morning," at Clinton's inauguration.

Akebono (Chadwick Haheo Rowan)
1993 --- 1st non-Japanese yokozuna sumo wrestler.

Carol Elizabeth Moseley-Braun
1993 --- 1st black woman in US Senate.

Kim Campbell
1993 --- 1st female Prime Minister of Canada.

Barbara Harmer
1993 --- 1st woman to pilot the Concorde (March 25th.)

Janet Reno
1993 --- 1st female US Attorney General.

Shiela Widnall
1993 --- 1st secretary of a branch of the US military (appointed to head the Air Force)

Eileen Marie Collins
1995 --- 1st female space shuttle pilot. She piloted the space shuttle Discovery during a mission to rendezvous with space station Mir.

Rebecca Elizabeth Marier
1995 --- 1st woman to graduate 'top of the class' at West Point, the US Military Academy. The rankings are based on academic, military and physical accomplishments.

Madeleine Albright
1996 --- 1st female US Secretary
Of State.

Dolly, the lamb
1996 --- 1st cloned mammal.

Claudia Kennedy, US Army Major General
1997 --- 1st female US three-star general..

Anna Lelkes
1997 --- became the 1st official female member of the Vienna Philharmonic after the orchestra voted to end its all-male policy. She plays the harp.

Craig Breedlove
1998 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier in a car, at Lake Bonneville, UT, with a trap speed of over 760 MPH.

Jane Henney
1998 --- 1st woman appointed Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA.)

Johnathan Lee Iverson
1998 --- 1st black ringmaster in the 129-year history of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. (At age 22, also the youngest.)

Elizabeth Ann Oliver
1998 --- 1st woman to have her baby's birth broadcast live over the Internet. (June 16)

Carlos Santana
1998 --- 1st Hispanic to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Lt. Kendra Williams, USN
1998 --- 1st US female combat pilot to bomb an enemy target. On Dec. 16, bombed enemy targets over Iraq during Operation Desert Fox.

Eileen Collins
1999 --- 1st woman astronaut to command a space shuttle mission.

Cynthia M. Trudell
1999 --- 1st woman to head a US car company, Saturn Corp.

Abdurrahman Wahid
1999 --- 1st elected president of Indonesia (on October 20, '99).

Colin Powell
2000 --- 1st black secretary of state.

Halle Berry
2002 --- 1st black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

Steve Fossett
2002 --- 1st balloonist to fly solo around the world when he landed in Australia on 4th July 2002.

Gene Robinson
2003 --- 1st openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in US.