Lets Know----General Knowledge--------------------------------------- ---------------------List of First In The World--------------------------- First talkie movie in the world - “The jazz Singer” (1927) First Oscar winner for the Best Actor – Emil Jannings (1928) First Oscar winner for Best Actress - janet Gaynor, (1928) 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 (195 3) First Tour de France (road bicycle race) winner - Maurice Garin (1903) First recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion -Tim Hyer (1841) World’s first chess champion - Wilhelm Steinitz (1886) First golf club in the world - Honour able Company of Edinburgh Golfers(1744) First man to run a mile under 4 minutes- Sir Roger Bannister (1954) First athlete disqualified at the Olympics for drug use - Hans-Gunnar Lijenwall Mexico summer Olympics (1968) The first cricket club - Cricket club founded in Hambledon, England (1750) First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal - Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900) First professional woman bullfighter- Patricia Mccormick (1952) First American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics - W Rudolph, Rome Olympics (1960) First Women’s Olympic marathon Champion - Joan Benoit, Los Angles ( 1984) First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic - Charles Lindbergh (1927) First person to fly faster than the speed of sound - Charles Elwood Chuck Veager, he flew a Bell X-1 rocket at 670 mph in level flight (1947) First man to reach the South Pole - Roald Amun-dsen, Norwegian team (1911) First person to swim across the English Channel - Matthew Webb (1875) First person to cross Antarctic Circle - James Cook (1773) First humans to fly - Marquis d’ Arlandes & Pilatre de Rozier (1783) First balloonist to fly solo nonstop around the world - Steve Fossett, U.S. (2002) First man to cross the Pacific Ocean in hot air balloon - Ben Abruzzo and team in the Double Eagle V (1981) First people to sight the North Pole- Roald Amundsen and lincoln Ellsworth (1926) First people to reach the North Pole - Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952) First successful conquest of Mount Everest-Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) (1953) First conquest of Everest via the North Ridge - Chinese team (1960) First person to conquer the Everest twice- Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965) First blind person to conquer the Everest- Erik Weihenmayer, USA (2001) First person with only one arm to climb the Everest - American Gary Guller(2003) First woman to fly solo - Bessica Medlar Raiche flew in an airplane built of bamboo, wire and silk (1910) First woman to fly solo around the world - jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964) First woman to fly solo across the English Channel- Hariiet Quimby First woman to climb Everest - Junko Tabei of Japan (1975) First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic- Amelia Earhart (1932) First woman to swim the English Channel - Gertrude Ederle (1926 ) 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) First woman to sail around the world solo in under 100 days - Ellen MacArthur, English Sailor (2001) First person ever to transmit speech from one point to another by electrical means - Alexander Graham Bell, (1876) First sound recording -Thomas Alva Edison’s Phonograph (1877) First antibiotic drug - Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming (1928) The first and only supersonic airliner - Concorde, twice the speed of sound, about 2,170 kph (1969) The first mechanical computer by - Charles Babbage (1835) first computer programmer - Ada Byron’s (1842) First Compact Disc (CD) - 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 submarine - Built by Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor(1620) First artificial satellite launched into orbit- Sputnik 1, USSR (1957) First manned space vehicle - Vostok 1,USSR (1961) First manned private spaceflight - ‘Space Ship One’ piloted by Mike Melvill (2004) First fully controlled soft landing on moon-Surveyor 1 (1966) First spacecraft to orbit Saturn - Cassini Huygens (2004) First living creature to orbit the earth- Laika, the dog, aboard the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 2. (1957) First man in space - Yuri Gagarin USSR. (1961) First human to walk on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969) First human to walk in space - Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965) First Nobel Prize winner for Literature - Sully Prudhomme, France (1901) First Nobel Prize winner for Peace -Jean Henri Dunant, Switzerland & Frederic Passy, France (1901) First Nobel Prize winner for Economics- Ragnar Frisch, Norway & Jan Tinbergen, Netherlands (1969) First person to win two Nobel Prizes - Marie Sklodowska Curie (Physics,1903) Chemistry,1911 First woman Nobel Prize winner - Marie Sklodowska Curie, Physics. She is the first to win Physics Nobel (1903). First woman Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry - Marie Sklodowska Curie (1911) First woman Mother and daughter to win Nobel prize - Marie Sklodowska Curie (1903) and daughter Irene Joliot Curie (1935) First human heart transplant was per formed by - Dr. Christian Barnard(1967) First human heart transplant recipient.- Louis Washkansky. (1967) First recipient of a permanent artificial heart - Barney Clark (1982) Parkinson’s disease was first described by - James Parkinson, British neurologist (1817)........................................................... By Unknown -Dil Se....
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