Hustler's Convention

The Last Poets 1973 album "Hustler's Convention" is considered by many to be the first original inspiration of Rap music. A mix of funk, rhythm, DJing, and break-dancing evolved into Rap during the late 1970s, and Hip-Hop in the 1980s. The first Hip-Hop record is considered to be Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" released in 1979.
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The first baseball cards

The first baseball cards were designed as advertising trade cards used like brochures. A company named Peck and Snyder printed baseball cards in the late 1860s and used them as advertisements for their products. Baseball cards were distributed nationwide starting in the mid-1880s. The golden age of baseball cards is considered to be from 1909 to 1915.
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Rhazes

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, better known as Rhazes, was a leading figure in the field of medicine during the tenth century. He wrote the first-known description of small pox and was the first to describe and define allergies, particularly hay fever. He was also credited with being the first to use animal gut for sutures and plaster to construct casts.
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Endangered Species

The 1966 Endangered Species Preservation Act was the first U.S. law designed to protect endangered species. The act was inspired by the plight of the Whooping Crane, Grizzly Bear, American Alligator, and many other endangered species. The law created a list of endangered domestic fish and wildlife and allowed the federal government to spend up to $15 million per year to buy habitat for listed species
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Frisbees

The first Frisbee was crafted from plastic by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni in San Luis Obispo, California in 1947. Their plastic disc was called the Flyin' Saucer and later renamed the Pluto Platter. After ten-years of hawking their new toy, a partnership was formed in 1958 with Wham-O, which renamed the Pluto Platter to Frisbee.
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Cable cars

On August 1, 1873, a crowd gathered at the corner of Clay and Kearny Streets in San Francisco at five o'clock in the morning to board the first run of a cable car system developed by Andrew Smith Hallidie. After seeing many horses succumb to the steep slopes of the city, Hallidie devised a mechanism by which cars were drawn by metal cable running in a slot between the rails.
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Peace Corps

The first Peace Corps units were sent abroad in 1961, following the agency's formation by President Kennedy in 1960. The group's purpose is to assist other countries in their development efforts by providing skilled workers in the fields of education, agriculture, health, trade, technology, and community development. Nearly 200,000 people have served in the Corps since its formation.
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