General Knowledge for Kids!!!! THE First Ever 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 woman 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) Chinas 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 womens 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)
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