The first in world (women) General knowledge

First Lady to Climb Mt. Everest	Junko Taibei
First Woman Cosmonaut in Space	Valentina Tereshkova
First Woman Prime Minister of a Country	Srimavo Bhandarnaike
First Woman President of a Country	Maria Estela Peron
First Woman to Command a Space Mission	Colonel Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)
The First Woman Prime Minister Of South Korea	Ms. Chang Sang
The First Mislim Woman to Recieve Nobel Prize	Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
The First Woman Of The world to climb Mt. Everest four times	Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)
The First Woman to Cross seven important seas of the World by swimming	Bula Chaudhury (India)
The woman to be appointed as Governor of the province in Afghanistan	Habiba Sorabhi
The first woman of the world to swim across five continents	Bula Chaudhury (India)
The first woman athlete to touch 5.0 meters park in pole vault	Ms. Yelena Isinbayeva
First woman foreign secretary of England	Margaret Backett
16 First woman Prime Minister of Jamaica	Portia Simpson Miller (Feb. 2006)
First Woman President of Chile	Dr. Michelle Bachelet
First Woman Chancellor of Germany	Angela Markel (took over in Nov. 2005)
First Woman Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan	Shanshad Akhtar (Dec. 2005)
The First Duly Elected Woman President of an African Country	Allen Johnson Sirleaf
First Woman to Reach Antarctica	Caroline Michaelson
First Woman President Of UN General Assembly	Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)
The First Woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher
First person to discover radioactivity	Marie Curie of Poland
First woman to swim the English Channel	Gertrude Ederle of the USA
First woman to reach the North Pole	Ann Bancroft of USA
First woman Prime Minister of the UK	Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, 1979
First woman to win Magsasay award	M. S. Subbulakshmi, 1974
First woman to win the Templeton award	Mother Teresa
First woman to reach South Pole	Shirley M. Metz (USA)
First woman to win Nobel Prize in literature	Pearl S. Buck
First woman Prime Minister of European country	Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, 1979
First youngest Asian to swim across English Channel	Arti Pradhan at the age of 16
First camerawoman	Tamara Lobova
First lady composer	Jaddan Bai
First lady Director	Lois Weber (USA)
First lady Producer	Countess Bubha (UK)
First woman Bishop in Anglicicanism	Barbara Harris (USA)
First democratically elected female head of a Country	Vigdis Finnbogadottir
First woman airplane pilot in the World	Prem Mathur (India)
First woman Doctor in the World	Elizabeth Blackwell
First woman pilot to fly an airbus 300	Capt. Durba Bannerjee, 1987