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) |
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