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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable |
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Jean Baptiste du Sable founded the City of Chicago by building the first house and opening the first trading post about 1779. |
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George Washington Bush |
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George Washington Bush founded the City of Centralia, Washington in 1875, and made its first map. |
Matthew Henson |
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Guion (Guy) S. Bluford, Jr. |
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Astronaut Guy Bluford was the first Black astronaut to orbit the earth in the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. |
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Matthew
Henson was the first person to set foot on the North Pole. In 1909, on
his sixth trip with Robert Peary, Henson went ahead of Peary who had a
bad case of frost bite. He placed the American flag at the North Pole.