First in the World
First in the World
- The first persons to reach Mount Everest – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
- The first person to reach North Pole – Robert Peary
- The first person to reach South Pole – Amundsen
- The first religion of the world – Hinduism
- The first country to print book – China
- The first country to issue paper currency – China
- The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services – China
- The first President of the U.S.A – George Washington
- The first Prime Minister of Britain – Robert Walpole
- The first Governor General of the United Nations – Trigveli (Norway)
- The first country to prepare a constitution – U.S.A
- The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah
- The first country to host NAM summit –Yugoslavia
- The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great
- The first European to reach China – Marco Polo
- The first person to fly aero plane – Wright Brothers
- The first person to sail round the world – Magellan
- The first country to send man to the moon – U.S.A
- The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space – Russia
- The first country to host the modern Olympics – Greece
- First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
- The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima (Japan)
- The first person to land on the moon – Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
- The first shuttle to go in space – Columbia
- The first spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I
- The first woman Prime Minister of England – Margaret Thatcher
- The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country – Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
- The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
- The first woman cosmonaut of the world – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)
- The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut – Mohd. Azharuddin
- The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice – Nawang Gombu
- The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon
- First Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein
- First Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great
- First Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin
- First Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong
- The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei
- The first European to visit China – Marco Polo
- First Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov
- The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike
- The first woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron
- The first woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel– Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)
- First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer” (1927).
- The first residents of International Space station– Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
- The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001)
- The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan
- The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)
- The first South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth
- The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang
- The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)
- The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)
- China's first man in space – Yang Liwei
- The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize– Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
- The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record – Kiran Baloch
- 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)
- First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964)
- First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957)
- First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (1953)
- First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)
- First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952)
- First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic– Charles Lindbergh (1927)
- First person to cross Antarctic Circle – James Cook (1773)
- First people to reach the North Pole – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)
- First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)
- First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller(2003)
- First woman to fly solo around the world – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)
- First woman to fly solo across the English Channel – Hariiet Quimby
- First woman to set foot on North Pole– Ann Bancroft, USA (1986)
- First Atom Bomb– “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the Second World War (1945)
- First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961)
- First human to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)
- First human to walk in space – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
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