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First in World

First adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft

Felix Baumgartner

First aircraft pilot to round the entire world non-stop by his 2 engine aircraft in67 hours

Steve Fossett

First Asian to win Wimbledon Trophy

Arthur Ashe (U.S.A)

First athlete who won eight gold medals in individual events in one Olympic Games

Michael Phelps

First blind man to scale Mt. Everest

Erik Weihenmayaer

First Chairman of Peoples Republic of China

Mao-Tse-Tung

First chinese man in space

Yang Liwei

First Chinese Traveller to India

Fahein

First city to be attacked with Atom bomb

Heroshima (Japan)

First country to host the modern Olympic games

Greece

First country to issue paper currency

China

First country to launch satellite into space

Russia (former USSR)

First country to make a constitution

United States of America

First country to make education compulsory

Russia

First country to print books

China

First country to send human to Moon

United States of America

First country to start Civil Services Competition

China

First country to win the world cup Football

Uruguay (1930)

First deaf and dumb to cross the Srait of Gibraltar

Taranath Shenoy (India)

First double amputee to scale Mt. Everest

Mark Inglis

First duly elected woman President of an African Country

Allen Johnson Sirleaf

First eldest man to climb Mt. Event

Richard Wass

First European Invader of Indian soil

Alexander, The Great

First European to visit China

Marco Polo

First Foreign Invader to India

Alexander the Great

First Governor General of Pakistan

Mohammed Ali Jinnah

First Hindu Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court

Justice Rana Bhagwan Das

First man to compile Encyclopaedia

Aspheosis (Athens)

First man to draw the map of earth

Anexemander

First man to go into space

Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR)

First man to reach South Pole

Ronald Amundsen

First man to set foot on the Moon

Nell Armstrong (U.S.A)

First man to win Nobel Prize Economics

Ranger fish (Norway)& John Tinbergen (Howlland)

First man to win Nobel prize for Chemistry

J.H. Wenthoff (Howlland)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Rene F.A. & Suilt Pradhom (France )

First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace

Jin F. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Peiry (France)

First man to win Nobel prize for Physics

W.K. Roentgen (Germany)

First man to win Nobel Prize Medicine (Medical Science)

A.E. Wonn Behring (Germany)

First men to climb Mt. Everest

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May ,1953)

First men to fly an aeroplane

Wright Brothers

First Muslim woman to become the Secrwtary General of Amnesty International

Irine Zubeida Khan

First Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize

Shirin Ebadi

First Person in Space

Yuri Gagarin

First Person to reach North Pole

Robert Pearey

First Person to reach South Pole

Amundsen

First person to sail around the world

Ferdinand Magellan

First President of the Chinese Republic

Dr. Sun Yat Sen

First President of USA

George Washington

First prime Minister of great Britain

Robert Walpole

First Radio Telescope Satellite was launched into space by

Japan

First religion of the world

Santosh Dharma

First residents of International Space Station

Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev

First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India

V.I. Bulganin

First secretary general of United Nations

Trigve Li

First South African to become the second space tourist

Mark Shuttleworth

First space astronaut to go into space seven times till date

Jerry Ross

First space ship landed on mars

Viking

First Space Shuttle Launched

Columbia

First Space Tourist (Female)

Mrs. Anousheh Ansari

First Space Tourist (Male)

Dennis Tito

First Summit of NAM was organized in

Belgrade (former Yugoslavia)

First University of the world

Taxila University

First woamn President of Chile

Dr. Michelle Bachelet

First woman athlete to touch 5.0 metre mark in pole vault

Ms. Yelena Isinbayeva

First woman Chancellor of Germany

Anegla Merkel

First woman cosmonaut in space

Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)

First woman foreign Secretary of England

Margaret Backett

First Woman governor of the state Bank of Pakistan

Shanshad Akhtar

First woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest

Lakpa Sherpa

First woman of the world to swim across five continents

Bula Chaudhury

First woman President of a country

Maria Estela Peron (Argentina)

First woman President of the republic of India

Pratibha Patil

First woman president of UN General assembly

Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)

First Woman Prime Minister of a country

Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike

First woman Prime Minister of a country

S. Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka)

First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country

Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

First woman Prime Minister of England

Margaret Thacher

First woman Prime Minister Of Jamaica

Porta Simpson Miller

First woman Prime Minister of South Korea

Ms. Chang Sang

First woman to be appointed as a Governor of a province in Afghanistan

Habiba Sorabhi

First woman to climb Mt. Everest

Junko Tabei (Japan )

First Woman to Command a Space Mission

Colonel Eileen Collins

First woman to reach Antartica

Caroline Michaelson

First woman to reach the North pole

Ms. Fran

First youngest Grandmaster of the World in Chess

Sergey Karjakin

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