These are the 21 events that first passed in 2021

An African woman leads the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.She made history in March being the first African person and the first woman who arrives at the OMC General Directorate.Okonjo-Iweala was also the first woman to be finance minister of her native Nigeria, a position she held twice.

A fully digital piece of art sold at an auction by millions.Everydays: The First 5000 Days, by the artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, was auctioned for € 60.9m at the Christie’s auction house.The photo collage was the first Nft work offered in a large auction house.It was also the first time that Christie’s accepted cryptocurrencies as a payment method.

An autonomous drone was released to attack humans according to the UN.A drone could have hunted and killed human objectives in Libya according to a UN report.A Kargu-2, from a Turkish military contractor, was launched in March in an area where the transient government supported by the UN and Khalifa Haftar, the de facto leader of the Libyan National Army were fighting.Although remote control drones have been used for years, it would be the first time that there is evidence of the use of artificial intelligence to kill human objectives.

A Dutch Museum permanently includes women's works.For the first time in its two centuries of history, the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam hung three paintings of the seventeenth century of female artists.The works of Judith Leyster, Gesina Ter Borch and Rachel Ruysch belong to the permanent exhibition in the area reserved for the Dutch masterpieces of greater value

A human brain connects without cables to a computer.In what seems to be a great advance for those who have spinal injuries, scientists from Brown University have connected a human brain to a computer through a transmitting device.The participants in this test had paralysis and managed to move robotic elements just by imagining the movement.

NASA Perseverance Rover Factory Oxygen on Mars.An instrument called Moxie - Experiment of Use of Oxygen Resources In Sitid in Mars - aboard the Perseverance managed to convert part of the Martian atmosphere, elementaryly composed of oxygen carbon dioxide.While technology is in an early phase, it could help future human missions on the planet.

The world's largest jewelry brand launches its first collection of diamonds created in a laboratory.Pandora announced that he would stop using mines diamonds in his jewelry and introduced his first synthetic stones.The Brilliance collection has already debuted in Great Britain and is expected to also do so in other markets in 2022.The company ensures that the public's affordability and demand for environment -responsible products are behind the decision.

Mexico chooses the first trans legislators in the country.María Clemente García and Salma Luévano have made history in Mexico as the first openly trans legislators to be chosen for the lower house of Congress.Both are a member of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and have claimed the fight against the Pobraza and the defense of the LGBTQ community.

Tibet premieres his first bullet train.The electric train line, 4.€ 924m, began its service in June and joins the capital Lhasa with Nyingchi.It measures 400 kilometers and slides by 47 tunnels and 121 bridges.Given the great tibet altitudes -almost the entire line exceeds 3.000 meters of altitude- The train is equipped with a system that automatically maintains oxygen levels inside.

The National Organization of Geographical Cartographers recognizes the fifth ocean of the world.On World Ocean Day, the National Geography Society officially recognized Antarctica as the South Ocean.The organization, which has been publishing maps and Atlas since 1915, has drawn a new map that recognizes the body of water that scientists have differentiated for years from the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian and the Arctic.

Richard Branson becomes the first private citizen who arrives at space in his own ship.In a great step to make the astrotourism something real, the founder of Virgin Galactic won the billionaire space race when, in July, he crossed the sky aboard the supersonic Spacehyiptwo, an aircraft with wings developed by his company.Nine days later, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, joined the club with his own ship, the New Shepard.

Astronomers see light coming from behind a black hole.The light may not be able to escape a black hole, but for the first time some astronomers observed light behind one, 800 million light years from Earth.This finding, reflected in the Periodic Nature, confirms the theory of Einstein's relativity.

The first 3D printed school in the world opens in Malawi.The school is manufactured by 14tress, a Joint Venture a British company and another Switzerland.The organizers trust that this affordable technology helps to alleviate the lack of schools in the country.

Rain recorded from the highest point in Greenland.In what has been considered by experts as a new warning of climate change, rain has fallen into the highest region of Greenland, about two thousand meters above sea level.It is the first time that the observations began since the 80s began.The temperature rose from the freezing point, causing the rain for several hours.

El Salvador becomes the first country to make the Bitcoin national currency.El Salvador approved a law that confirmed the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in the country next to the US dollar.Many Salvadorans see it with skepticism for currency volatility and financial experts fear that this provokes more instability to the country's economy and favor money laundering.

Dapper Dan becomes the first black designer who receives the CFDA prize to his career.The Fashion Designers Council of America announced in September that Daniel Day, known as Dapper Dan, would receive this award.The designer is popularly known for introducing luxury fashion to the hip-hop world in the 80s thanks to his store in Harlem.He is the first black designer and the first designer without his own catwalk that wins it.

A drone in the ocean captures the first photo within a great hurricane.The unmanned ship was introduced into the heart of Hurricane Sam, category four, which had winds of more than 190 km/h in September.Sildrone researchers, who does oceanic research with drones, and the Atmospheric and Oceanic National Administration hope it helps to understand how hurricanes intensify.

Spacex launches the first entirely civil crew to space.Jared Isaacman, the Shift4 Payments executive, got the INSPITATION4 mission to raise money for the Stadio Streasing Hospital ST.Jude.The Spacex dragon capsule and its crew of four people orbital the land for three days without professional astronauts on board.

France calls the American ambassador for the first time in the history of his alliance.Joe Biden announced in September that the United States would share underwater propulsion technology with Australia, a strange movement considered in response to China's great influence on Asia-Pacific.Before completing the agreement, Australia previously refused to buy conventional submarines from France.As a protest, France, who was not informed of the agreement, sent to return to the ambassador to the US for the first time in his long diplomatic history, since 1778.

Sales of vehicles without emissions exceed sales of diesel vehicles in Europe.On September, electric vehicles exceeded diesel sales for the first time in Europe, according to the European electric car report.Although some analysts believe that it is only somewhat momentary, they recognize that it is an important point in the trajectory of zero emissions technology.

A Filipina wins the Nobel Peace for the first time.The journalist María Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for her report on President Filipino Rodrigo Duterte and her controversial tactics in the war on drugs.She is the first Nobel Filipina and won the award with the Russian Dmitry Muratov, editor of the newspaper Novayagazeta, known for her criticism against Kremlin.