*.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 talkie movie in the world - “Thejazz 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 an Olympic GoldMedal - 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 - WRudolph, Rome Olympics (1960)
*.First Women’s Olympic marathon Champion - Joan Benoit, Los Angles ( 1984)
*.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-GunnarLijenwall Mexico summer Olympics (1968)
*.The first cricket club - Cricket club founded in Hambledon, England (1750)
*.First man to fly solo non stop acrossthe Atlantic - Charles Lindbergh (1927)
*.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 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 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 GrahamBell, (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 intoorbit- 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 woman Nobel Prize winner - Marie Sklodowska Curie, Physics. Sheis 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 to walk in space - AlexeiArkhovich 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 (19
69)
*.First person to win two Nobel Prizes - Marie Sklodowska Curie (Physics,1903) Chemistry,1911
*.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)
*.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 - JunkoTabei of Japan (1975
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