General Knowledge - First in the World

The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah

The first country to host NAM summit –Yugoslavia

The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great

The first European to reach China – Marco Polo

The first person to fly aero plane – 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

First Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein

First Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great

First Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin

First Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong

The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei

The first European to visit China – Marco Polo

First 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

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 woman to set foot on North Pole– Ann Bancroft, USA (1986)

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)

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

To get new updates Like us on FaceBook