First in the world General Knowledge Updates

·         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 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)

·         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