Skip to content- First street lights Philadelphia in 1757
- First talkie film , “The Jazz Singer” released on 6th Oct 1927 in a cenima of New York.
- First sentence of the film was “Wait a minute!”.
- First test match on 15-19 March 1877 at Melbourne between Australia and England
- First test tube baby Louis Brown
- First translation of Bible into English John Wickliffe
- First tree on earth Date-palm
- First Twenty20 World Cup winner India in Australia in Sep 2007 (Pakistan was runner up)
- First underground Railway London (1863)
- First united Chinese empire Shi Huangdi
- First untouchable President of India Kocheril Raman Narayanan (1997 – 2002)
- First Urdu Novel *** Mira‟ at-ul-Uroos
- First UN member to be expelled Taiwan First US administrator for Iraq Paul Bremer
- First US black ambassador to UN Andrew Young (1977)
- First US President to die during presidency William Henry Harrison (He wore gloves to protect himself from infection, he nicknamed “Kid-glove”)
- First US President to be impeached Andrew Johnson (1868)
- First US President of win a Nobel Prize Theodore Roosevelt (1906)
- First US soldier to be killed in Vietnam war James Davis (22nd Dec 1961)
- First US state to ratify US constitution Delaware
- First US state to secede from union South Carolina
- First US Vice President to resign Spiro T. Agnew (Oct 11, 1973)
- First US Vice President to serve as acting President George Herbert Walker Bush, when Ronald Reagan underwent surgery for three hours
- First winter Olympics 1924 in Chamonix (France)
- First woman Air vice Marshal in India P. Bindo Padhya
- First US woman Ambassador Eugenie Moore
- First woman cabinet member in UK Margaret Grace Bondfield
- First woman Cabinet member in USA Frances Perkins (Secretary of labour)
- First woman Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel
- First woman Foreign Minister of UK Margaret Beckett (Since May 2006)
- First woman in British Cabinet Margaret Bondfield
- First woman in British Parliament Lady Astor
- First woman Mathematician in the West Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- First woman member of House of Commons Nancy Witcher Astor
- First woman member of the House of Representatives Dame Enid Lyons
- First woman Nobel Laureate of literature Selma Lagerlöf of Sweden (1909)
- First woman president in the world Isabel Peron (Argentina): a dancer
- First woman president of Argentina Cristina Kirchner (Dec 2007)
- First woman President of India Pratibha Patil (Since July 2007)
- First Woman President of Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri
- First Woman President of Ireland Mary Robinson