First in the World:
1. | Chairman of Peoples Republic of China | Mao-Tse-Tung |
2. | President of the Chinese Republic | Dr. Sun Yat Sen |
3. | President of U.S.A | George Washington |
4. | Chinese Traveller to India | Fahein |
5. | Foreign Invader to India | Alexander the Great |
6. | Person to reach South Pole | Amundsen |
7. | Person to reach North Pole | Robert Pearey |
8. | Person in Space | Yuri Gagarin |
9. | Person on Moon | Neil Armstrong |
10. | Lady to climb Mount Everest | Junko Taibei |
11. | European to visit China | Marco Polo |
12. | Place where atom bomb was dropped | Hiroshima |
13. | Man to walk in Space | Alexei Leonov |
14. | Woman cosmonaut in Space | Valentina Tereshkova |
15. | Woman Prime Minister of a country | Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike |
16. | Woman President of a country | Maria Estela Peron |
17. | Woman to Command a Space Mission | Colonel Eileen Collins (U.S.A.) |
18. | The first residents of International Space station | Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) |
19. | The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest | Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001) |
20. | The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International | lrine Zubeida Khan |
21. | The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date | Jerry Ross (U.S.A.) |
22. | The first South African to become the second space tourist | Mark Shuttleworth |
23. | The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea | Ms. Chang Sang |
24. | The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess | Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) |
25. | The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft | Felix Baumgartner (July 2003) |
26. | China's first man in space | Yang Liwei |
27. | The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize | Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003) |
28. | 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) |
29. | The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times | Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali) |
30. | The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming | Bula Chaudhury (India) |
31. | The first aircraft pilot to round the entire world non-stop by his 2 engine aircraft in 67 hours | Steve Fossett (March 2005) |
32. | The first woman to be appointed as a Governor of a province in Afghanistan | Habiba Sorabhi |
33. | The first woman of the world to swim across five continents | Bula Chaudhury (India) (April 2005) |
34. | The first woman athlete to touch 5.0 meter mark in pole vault | Ms. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russian, July 2005) |
35. | The first Hindu Chief Justice of Pakistani Supreme Court | Justice Rana Bhagwan Das Took over on Sept. 2, 2005 as Acting Chief Justice |
36. | The first duly elected woman President of an African country | Allen Johnson Sirleaf (elected President of Liberia in Nov. 2005) |
37. | The first woman Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan | Shanshad Akhtar (Appointed in Dec. 2005) |
38. | The first woman Chancellor of Germany | Angela Merkel (Took over in Nov. 2005) |
39. | The first woman President of Chile | Dr. Michelle Bachelet |
40. | The first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica | Portia Simpson Miller (Feb. 2006) |
41. | The first woman foreign Secretary of England | Margaret Backett (May 2006) |
42. | The first double amputee to scale Mt. Everest | Mark Inglis (May 15, 2006) |
Record Makers and Breakers
The first person 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 win football World cup | Uruguay |
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) |
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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 |
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 Prime Minister of a country | Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka) |
The first woman to climb Mount Everest | Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan) |
The first woman cosmonaut of the world | Velentina Tereshkova (Russia) |
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
The first man to fly into space | Yuri Gagarin (Russia) |
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 |
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