World's First "Talking Stamp"

Bhutan released the world's first "talking stamp" in April 1973. It's a tiny vinyl record, that when played at 78 rpm, the Bhutanese national anthem and a brief history of this country.

World's First Male Mother

Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man in Oregon after surgery and hormone treatment, was the first man to become a mother. Beatie, 34, who is legally a man but kept female reproductive organs when he had a sex-change operation 10 years ago, made headlines around the world and was dubbed the "pregnant man" before giving birth to a baby girl on June 29. After giving birth he did not go back on the male hormone testosterone that he took after his sex change, because he wanted to have another baby. Beatie's wife, Nancy, 46, whom he married five years ago, was unable to conceive because of a prior hysterectomy. That is why he had a baby himself, through artificial insemination using donor sperm and Beatie's own egg.

A file photo of Thomas Beatie when she was a woman.(Source: ic.eastday.com, File Photo)

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World's first commercial GSM call

Harri Holkeri

The world's first commercial GSM call was made on July 1, 1991 in Helsinki, Finland over a Nokia-supplied network, by then Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a prototype Nokia GSM phone.