FIRST IN THE WORLD

FIRST IN THE WORLD
First in the World segment of General Knowledge is quite useful for competitive exams like Bank Exams, UPSC, SSC and other Central and State level Entrance Exams.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
First human to walk on the Moon	Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)
First human to walk in space	Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
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
The first Governor General of Pakistan	Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The first country to host NAM summit	Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Junko Taibei
The first Foreign Invader to India	Alexander the Great
The first Chinese Traveler to India	Fahein
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency	Richard Nixon
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu
The first batsman to score three test centuries in three successive tests on debut	Mohd. Azharuddin
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first person to fly aeroplane	Wright Brothers
The first European to reach China	Marco Polo
The first European to attack India	Alexander, The Great
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
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 city on which the atom bomb was dropped	Hiroshima (Japan)
First woman to fly solo across the English Channel	Hariiet Quimby
First woman to fly solo around the world	Jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)
First person to conquer the Everest twice	Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)
First people to reach the North Pole	Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)
The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize	Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
China's first man in space	Yang Liwei
The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess	Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)
The first person to reach South Pole	Amundsen
The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services	China
The first religion of the world	Hinduism
The first country to print book	China
The first woman cosmonaut of the world	Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first Muslim Women Prime Minister of a country	Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher
The first country to issue paper currency	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.
First Asian city to host Olympics	Tokyo, Japan (1964)
First woman to win a Grand Slam	Maureen Catherine (195 3)
First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal	Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)
First professional woman bullfighter	Patricia Mccormick (1952)
First person to cross Antarctic Circle	James Cook (1773)
First Atom Bomb	Little Boy
First manned space vehicle	Vostok 1,USSR (1961)