First in World GK - Pt II

 

First

Country / Person

First Man to fly solo nonstop around the world in balloon

 Steve Fossett, U.S., 2002

First Man to go to the space

 Major Yuri Gagarin

First Man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice

 Nawang Gombu

First Man to reach North Pole

 Robert Peary

First Man to reach South Pole

 Ronald Amundsen

First Man to sail around the World

 Ferdinand Magellan

First Man to sail around the World alone

 Joshua Slocum

First Man to set foot on the Moon

 Neil Armstrong

First Man to swim across the English Channel

 Matthew Webb, 1875

First Man to walk in space

 Alexei Arkhovich Leonov, 1965

First Man to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

 JH Wenthoff

First Man to win Nobel Prize in Economics

 Ranger Fish and John Tinbergen

First Man to win Nobel Prize in Literature

 Rene FA and Silt Pradhom

First Man to win Nobel Prize in Medicine

 AE Wonn Behring

First Man to win Nobel Prize in Peace

 Jin F Dunant and Frederic Peiry

First Man to win Nobel Prize in Physics

 WK Roentgen

First Man to win Tour de France

 Maurice Garin, 1903

First Man tourist in Space

 Dennis Tito

First Movie in the world

 The jazz Singer , 1927

First Parkinson’s disease was first described by

 James Parkinson, British neurologist, 1817

First Recipient of a permanent artificial heart

 Barney Clark, 1982

First Religion of the world

 Santosh Dharma

First Secretary General of UN

 Trigve Li

First Space ship landed on Moon

 Viking-1

First Space shuttle launched

 Colombia

First Space vehicle to land on the moon

 Lunar Exploration Module (LEM)

First University of the world

 Taxila University

First Woman Bishop

 Rev Barbara C. Harris (USA)

First Woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon

 A Gibson, 1957

First Woman civilian police adviser of the U.N.

 Kiran Bedi

First Woman Cosmonaut in Space

 Valentina Tereshkova, USSR

First Woman Oscar winner for Best Actress

 Janet Gaynor, 1928
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