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• Who won the first NBA championship?

The Philadelphia Stags won the 1946/47 championship by defeating the Chicago Stags, four games to one.

• Who was the first person to set foot on the Moon?

Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the Moon on the 21st July 1969.

• Who was the first president of US?

George Washington, the caption of the army of U.S too. He fought in the Revolutionary War and signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Who was the first Olympic gold medalist?

The first gold medalist in the Modern Olympics was James Connolly of the United States in the triple jump in the 1896 Games in Athens.

• Who was the first boxing champion?

Tim Hyer was the first recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion in 1841.

• Who won World War 1?

The winners were: Great Britain, France, Italy, the US, and their allies.

• Who invented the very very first telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

• Who is the tallest man?

Robert Wadlow was 8 feet 11 inches tall when he was 22 years old

• Who is the tallest woman in the world?

Zeng jinlin, born in china with gigantism, was 8 feet 1 quarter when she died age 17 in Hunan china

• Who was the first person in space?

The first person to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin (1934-1968). His achievement brought prestige to the Soviet Union during the cold war, an ideological conflict between Communist and non-Communist countries (1947-1989). Gagarin orbited the Earth in the spaceship Vostok I, which was launched April 12, 1961, in a flight lasting one hour and forty-eight minutes. The achievement made Gagarin an international hero.

• The first black president to fill in as president of US?

Barack Obama, half Kenyan – half White.

• Who was the first Canadian woman to win a best actress Academy Award?

Mary Pickford, the second Best Actress winner, was born in Canada. She won the award for Coquette. The next two winners were also born in Canada: Norma Shearer and Marie Dressler.

• Who was the first African-American actress to win the Emmy Award?

In 1974 Cicely Tyson became the first African-Amercian actress to win an Emmy. She actually won two that year, Actress of the Year - Special and Best Lead Actress in a Drama for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

• Who is the First Mexican actor or actress to win an Academy Award?

Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Quinn may be the only Mexico-born Oscar winning actor.

• Who was the first actress to win the filmfare award as the best actress?

Meena Kumari

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