Important General Knowledge - First in the World (For all competitive Examination: UPSC,TNPSC, SSC, TRB,RRB,TET)

1. The First woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
2. The First woman Prime Minister of England– Margaret Thatcher
3. The First woman to climb Mount Everest– Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
4. The First woman cosmonaut of the world– Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)
5. The First woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike (Sri Lanka)
6. The First woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron
7. The First woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)
8. The First woman the highest individual Test score making a new world record – Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs)
9. The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)
10. The First woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming – Bula Chaudhury (India)
11. The First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957)
12. The First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (195 3)
13. The First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)
14. The First woman (Muslim) to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan
15. The First woman to fly solo around the world – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)
16. The First woman to fly solo across the English Channel – Hariiet Quimby
17. The First woman (Muslim)to receive Nobel Prize – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
18. The First woman to set foot on North Pole – Ann Bancroft, USA (1986) – Jointly developed by Sony and Philips (1978)
19. The First batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut– Mohd. Azharuddin
20. The First man to have climbed Mount Everest twice– Nawang Gombu
21. The First persons to reach Mount Everest – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
22. The First person to reach North Pole – Robert Peary
23. The First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964)
24. The First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952)
25. The First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic – Charles Lindbergh (1927)
26. The First person to cross Antarctic Circle – James Cook (1773)
27. The First human to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)
28. The First people to reach the North Pole – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)
29. The First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)
30. The First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller(2003)
31. The First person to reach South Pole– Amundsen
32. The First religion of the world – Hinduism
33. The First Governor General of Pakistan– Mohd. Ali Jinnah
34. The First country to host NAM summit– Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
35. The First city on which the atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima (Japan)
36. The First person to land on the moon NeilArmstrong followed by – Edwin E. Aldrin
37. The First human to walk in space – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
38. The First shuttle to go in space – Columbia
39. The First spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I
40. The First Muslim Prime Minister of a country– Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
41. The First European to attack India– Alexander, The Great
42. The First European to reach China– Marco Polo
43. The First person to fly aeroplane– Wright Brothers
44. The First person to sail round the world– Magellan
45. The First country to send man to the moon– U.S.A
46. The First country to launch Artificial satellite inthe space – Russia
47. The First country to host the modern Olympics– Greece
48. The First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
49. The First country to print book – China
50. The First U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon
51. The First Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein 
52. The First Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great
53. The First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978)
54. The First Atom Bomb – “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)
55. The First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961)
56. The First Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin (Rusia)
57. The First Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong
58. The First European to visit China – Marco Polo 
59. The First Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov
60. The First country to issue paper currency – China
61. The First country to commence competitive examination in civil services – China
62. The First President of the U.S.A – George Washington
63. The First Prime Minister of Britain – Robert Walpole
64. The First Governor General of the United Nations– Trigveli (Norway)
65. The First country to prepare a constitution –U.S.A
66. The First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer” (1927).
67. The First residents of International Space station – Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
68. The First blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001)
69. The First space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)
70. The First South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth
71. The First woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang
72. The First youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)
73. The First adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)
74. The First China's first man in space – Yang Liwei