FIRST IN THE WORLD

FIRST IN THE 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 inthe 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 wasdropped – 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.