An illustration of Thomas Stevens became the first person to circle the globe on a bicycle on a penny-farthing. Wikimedia Commons.

Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, the first woman known to ride a bicycle around the world. Wikimedia Commons.

Working in Paris and India at the turn of the last century, Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine created the world's first vaccines for cholera and plague. Then an accidental mass poisoning derailed his life. BBC

first snow of the season here in Seoul, South Korea

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Sesame Workshop debuts its first ever Rohingya Muppets for refugee children Ryan Donnell/Sesame Workshop

Illustration five from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration six from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration seven from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration eight from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration one from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight. Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration two from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration three from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Illustration four from the first ever mention of Santa’s reindeer from the 1821 poem, Old Santeclaus with Much Delight Wikimedia Commons.

Among The First Coloured Pictures Ever Taken By Louis Lumière, 1907

Traditionally the Soligas from BR hills, Karnataka, would live in huts like these and this family still does. The Soligas created history by becoming the first tribal community living in a tiger reserve in India to get their forest rights recognised. Kalyan Varma.