General Knowledge for Entrance Exams... Get in depth Knowledge from Expert Faculties. . Drop Your Queries Here Get a Call from Our Experts: bit.ly/1mK1GeT -- 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)
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