First in 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 – Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
• The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great
• The first European to reach China – Marco Polo
• The first person to fly aeroplane – 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
• Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein
• Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great
• Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin
• Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong
• The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei
• The first European to visit China – Marco Polo
• 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 (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women’s cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004)
• 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 (195 3)
• 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 ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978)
• 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)