1.   He is the first German chancellor to carry no guilt-inducing memory of World War II.

2.   He was the first chancellor to receive the honor since Konrad Adenauer, who laid the foundations of the postwar state.

3.   The most famous was Robert R. Livingston, great-grandson of the first lord, who was the first chancellor of the state of New York.

4.   Germans elect him first post-unity chancellor in December.

5.   Led by Gerhard Schroeder, the first chancellor not to have lived through the Nazi era, Germany is less inhibited in demanding a bigger say in Europe.

6.   Kohl was the first German chancellor to visit the cemetery.

7.   Profits from sale of the first chancellor cookbook will go to a medical research fund for brain-damage treatment and therapy of children crippled in accidents.

8.   The first American chancellor was George Washington.

9.   The first German chancellor without personal memory of World War II, Schroeder stresses that his nation has a moral duty to intervene to prevent atrocities.

10.   Clarke, who is on a three-day trip in China, is the first British chancellor to visit the country.