First in World General Knowledge for Preparing Various Exams in India

 

First in World

· The first persons to reach Mount Everest – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary

· The first person to reach North Pole – Robert Peary

· The first person to reach South Pole – Amundsen

· The first religion of the world – Hinduism

· The first country to print book – China

· The first country to issue paper currency – China

· The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services – China

· The first President of the U.S.A – George Washington

· The first Prime Minister of Britain – Robert Walpole

· The first Governor General of the United Nations – Trigveli (Norway)

· The first country to prepare a constitution – U.S.A

· The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah

· The first country to host NAM summit – Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

· The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great

· The first European to reach China – Marco Polo

· The first person to fly aeroplane – Wright Brothers

· The first person to sail round the world – Magellan

· The first country to send man to the moon – U.S.A

· The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space – Russia

· The first country to host the modern Olympics – Greece

· First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia)

· The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima (Japan)

· The first person to land on the moon Neil Armstrong followed by – Edwin E. Aldrin

· The first shuttle to go in space – Columbia

· The first spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I

· The first woman Prime Minister of England – Margaret Thatcher

· The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country – Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

· The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)

· The first woman cosmonaut of the world – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)

· The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

· The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut – Mohd. Azharuddin

· The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice – Nawang Gombu

· The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon

· Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein

· Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great

· Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin

· Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong

· The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei

· The first European to visit China – Marco Polo

· Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov

· The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike

· The first woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron

· The first woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)

· First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer” (1927).

· The first residents of International Space station – Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)

· The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001)

· The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan

· The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)

· The first South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth

· The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang

· The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)

· The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)

· China's first man in space – Yang Liwei

· The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)

· The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record – Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women's cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004)

· The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)

· The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming – Bula Chaudhury (India)

· First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964)

· First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957)

· First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (1953)

· First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)

· First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952)

· First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic – Charles Lindbergh (1927)

· First person to cross Antarctic Circle – James Cook (1773)

· First people to reach the North Pole – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)

· First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)

· First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller(2003)

· First woman to fly solo around the world – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)

· First woman to fly solo across the English Channel – Hariiet Quimby

· First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy)(1978)

· First woman to set foot on North Pole – Ann Bancroft, USA (1986) Jointly developed by Sony and Philips (1978)

· First Atom Bomb – “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)

· First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961)

· First human to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)

· First human to walk in space – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)