300 Firsts

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Adventure


First successful conquest of Mount Everest
Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) via the South-East Ridge Route (1953)

First conquer of Everest via the North Ridge
Chinese team (1960)

First American to conquer the Everest
James Whittaker (1963)

First person to conquer the Everest twice
Nawag Gombu Sherpa. Both of his ascents were via the South east ridge (1965)

First ascent of Everest without bottle oxygen
Peter Haneler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) via the South
East Ridge (197

First couple to conquer the Everest together
Andrej & Marija Stremfelj, Slovenia. Marija was also the first Slovenian woman to climb Everest (1990)

First son of a mountaineer to climb the Everest
Peter Hillary, New Zealand (1990)

First father and son to climb the Everest together
Jean Noel Roche and his son Roche Bertrand aka Zebulon (1990)

First conquest of Everest by two brothers together
Alberto and Felix Inurrategui (1992)

First Pakistani to conquer the Everest
Nazir Sabir (2000)

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Adventure


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 nonstop solo flight around the world without refueling
Steve Fossett flew the Virgin Atlantic Globalflyer around the world From Salina, Kansas. It covered 22,878 in 67 hrs (2005)

First round the world solo fight
Wiley post took a Locheed Vega, Winnie Mae, 15,596 mi around the world in 7 days, 18hr. (1933)

First woman to fly solo
Bessica Medlar Raiche. She flew in an airplane her husband built of bamboo, wire and silk (1910)

First woman to fly solo around the world

Jerrie Fredritz Mock. She made the flight in 29 days flying 22,860 miles. (1964)

First woman to fly solo across the English channel
Harriet Quimby, from Dover, England, to Hardelot, France, in a monoplane. She was later killed in a flying accident.(1912 April 16)

First woman to climb Everest without bottle oxygen
Lydia Bradey of New Zealand (1988 Nov 24)

First woman to climb from the North (Tibet) side
Phantog, a Tibetan woman, reached the summit only a few days after Junko, becoming the second woman to summit Everest(1975 May 27)

First European woman to climb Everest
Wanda Rutkiewicz. She was the third woman to summit Everest(1978)

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Adventure



First Asian woman to swim across the English channel
Arati Saha, India (1959 Sep 29)

First woman to climb Everest
Junko Tabei of Japan via the South East Ridge (1975 May 16)

First Indian woman to climb Everest
Bachendri Pal. She was the 5th woman in the world to achieve this (1984 May 23)

First woman to conquer Everest twice
Santhosh Yadav, India (1993 May 10)

First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart, from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in 15 hrs. (1932 May)

First woman to swim the English channel
Getrude Ederle, in 14 hours and 39 minutes and she broke the existing men’s record. (1926 Aug 03)

First Indian woman to swim across seven seas of the world
Bula Choudhary, India. She was the first Indian woman to cross English channel twice. (2004)

First Indian woman to reach Antarctica
Meher Moos (1976)

First woman to set foot on North Pole
Ann Bancroft, USA (1986)

First woman to sail around the world solo in under 100days
Ellen MacArthur, English Sailor (2001)

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Science



The first and only supersonic airliner
Concorde, twice the speed of sound, about 2, 170 kph (1969)

The first mechanical computer was conceived by
Charles Babbage (1835)

First person ever to transmit speech from one point of another by electrical means
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish bacteriologist (1876)

First antibiotic drug
Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist (1928)

First algorithm written for a computer
Ada Byron’s (Ada Lovelace) notes on the analytical engine of Charles Babbage. She is regarded as the first computer programmer (1842)

First compact disc (CD)
Jointly developed by two companies, Sony and Philips (1978)

First sound recording
Thomas Alva Edison’s phonograph was the first instrument used for recording sound (1877)

First Atom Bomb
“Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)

First submatine
Built by Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor and scientist (1620)

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Space


First artificial satellite launched into orbit
Sputnik 1, USSR (1957)

First artificial satellite by the United States
Explorer 1 (195

First manned space vehicle
Vostok 1, USSR (1961)

First international co-operative space flight
A US Apollo spacecraft docks with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft while in earth orbit. The two flight crews visited each other’s spacecraft and had meals together (1975)

First US astronaut to orbit earth
John Glenn (1962)

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, Sputnil 2. Laika was asphysiated after a week in orbit. Her cabin burned up on re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere (1957)

First man in space
Yuri Gagarin of USSR. He is the first human to orbit Earth (1961)

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Space



First Indian in space
Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7 (1984)

First American in space
Alan B Shepherd (1961)

First human to walk in the Moon
Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 (1969)

First human to walk in space
Alexei Arkhovich lenov (1965)

First American to walk in space
Edward Higgins White, Jr. (1965)

First commercial communications satellite
Early Bird, built for the communications satellite corporation (COMSAT) (1965)

First satellite designed to transmit television and high speed data communications
Telstar(1962)

First communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit
Syncom (1963)

First woman in space
Velentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, aboard Vostok – 6 (1963)

American woman in space
Dr. Sally K. Ride, space shuttle challenger (1983)

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