First in World GK - Pt III

 

First	Country / Person
First Woman President of a Country	Maria Estela Peron
First Woman President of UN General assembly	Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Woman Prime Minister of a Country	S Bhandarnayake
First Woman professional bullfighter	Patricia Mccormick, 1952
First Woman to Climb Mt. Everest	Juno Tabei, Japan
First Woman to Climb Mt. Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
First Woman to reach Antartica	Caroline Michaelson
First Woman to reach North Pole	Mrs Fran Phipps
First Woman to sail around the world alone	Kat Cotte
First Woman to set foot on North Pole	Ann Bancroft, USA, 1986
First Woman to swim the English Channel	Gertrude Ederle, 1926
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 Woman to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Marie Curie
First Woman to win Nobel Prize in Economics	Elinor Ostrom
First Woman to win Nobel Prize in Literature	Selma Lagerlöf
First Woman to win Nobel Prize in Medicine	Gerty Theresa Cori
First Woman to win Nobel Prize in Peace	Bertha von Suttner
First Woman to win Nobel Prize in Physics	Marie Curie
First Woman tourist in Space	Mrs Anousheh Ansari
First Women’s Olympic marathon Champion	Joan Benoit, Los Angles, 1984
Human to walk in space	Alexei Leonov
Manned space vehicle	Vostok 1, USSR
Person to cross Antarctic Circle	James Cook
Residents of International Space station	Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
Satallite in space	Sputnik I
The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut	Mohd. Azharuddin
The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped	Hiroshima (Japan)
The first country to host NAM summit	Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first country to host the modern Olympics	Greece
The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space	Russia
The first country to prepare a constitution	U.S.A.