Daily Dose-GK & CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Ramanujan was the first Indian to be elcted fellow of Trinity College, Cambidge
• Sir J.C.Bose was the first from the Indian subcontinent to get a US patent back in 1904
• Churchil won Nobel Prize in literature in 1953.
• Lewis Hamilton(UK) recently became world's youngest F 1 Racing Champion.
• Igiby Bank(Babylon, 605 BC) was the earliest bank of the world
• Anoushesh Ansari(Iran) was the first woman space tourist
• John Adams was the first US president to reside in the White House
• Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya was led by the Kikuyu tribe against British rule
• Monroe Doctrine(1823)- European countries no longer vto colonize in America or interfere with existing colonies.Propounded by US President James Monroe.
• Camp Delta, Camp Echo and Camp X-Ray are all parts of Guantanamo Bay prison
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended French participation in the affairs of Vietnam
• US-Vietnam war was also known as Second Indo-China War
• Ralph Bunche was the first Black to win a Nobel(1950)
• The Jazz Singer was the first talkie in the world
• Y.V.Chnadrachud had the longest tenure as the Chief Justice of India(1978-1985)
• The 17th Parallel separates North and South Vietnam
• Domino Theory-If a country succumbs to communist regime, the neighbouring countries will follow.It was developed during Eisenhower administration
• 055 Brigade-Organisation of Al Qaida terrorists
  
• Santa Catarina flood affected Brazil in 2008
• David Cameron is the Leader of Opposition in UK
• Operation Cyclone-Anti communist operation in Afghanistan by USA in late 70s and early 80s
• 40th Army- Soviet Army which invaded Afghanistan
• Mohd Zahir Shah ruled Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973
• Space X Falcon was the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit
• Albania and Croatia joined NATO in 2008
• Operation Mongoose-Operation by Kennedy Administration to overthrow Fidel Castroin late 1961
• Three Gorges Dam, China is the largest Hydroelectric project in the world