first in the world

1. The first person to reach Mount Everest    

Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary

2. The first person to reach the North Pole 

Robert Peary

3. The first person to reach the South Pole

Amundsen

4. The first religion of the world  

Hinduism

5. The first country to print book

China

6. The first country to issue paper currency  

China

7. The first country to commence a competitive examination in civil services   

China

8. The first President of the U.S.A.       

George Washington

9. The first Prime Minister of Britain    

Robert Walpole

10. The first Governor-General of the United Nations

Trygve Lie (Norway)

11. The first country to win the football World cup

Uruguay

12. The first country to prepare a constitution

U.S.A.

13. The first Governor-General of Pakistan      

Mohd. Ali Jinnah

14. The first country to host NAM summit       

Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

15. The first European to attack India    

Alexander, The Great

16. The first European to reach China   

Marco Polo

17. The first person to fly an aeroplane       

Wright Brothers

18. The first person to sail around the world     

Magellan

19. The first country to send a man to the moon

U.S.A.

20. The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space      

Russia

21. The first country to host the modern Olympics   

Greece

22. The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped     

 

Hiroshima (Japan)

 

23. The first person to land on the moon         

 

Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin

 

24. The first shuttle to go in space        

 

Columbia

 

25. The first spacecraft to reach on Mars

 

Viking

 

26. The first woman Prime Minister of England        

 

Margaret Thatcher

 

27. The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country      

 

Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

 

28. The first woman Prime Minister of a country       

 

Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)

 

29. The first woman to climb Mount Everest    

 

Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)

 

30. The first woman cosmonaut of the world   

 

Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)

 

31. The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly       

 

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

32. The first man to fly into space

 

Yuri Gagarin (Russia)

 

33. The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut 

 

Mohd. Azharuddin

 

34. The first man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice      

 

Nawang Gombu

 

35. The first U.S. President to resign Presidency       

Richard Nixon