First in World

List of First in World with achiever in different categories and sections like nobel prize, sports, education etc.

First in World

  • The first persons to reach Mount Everest – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
  • The first person to reach the North Pole – Robert Peary
  • The first person to reach the 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 around 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
  • First human in space – Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
  • 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 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
  • The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon
  • Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein
  • Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great
  • Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin
  • Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong
  • The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei
  • The first European to visit China – Marco Polo
  • Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov
  • The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike
  • The first woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron
  • The first woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)
  • First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer” (1927).
  • The first residents of International Space station – Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
  • The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001)
  • The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan
  • The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)
  • The first South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth
  • The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang
  • The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)
  • The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)
  • China’s first man in space – Yang Liwei
  • The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
  • 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)
  • The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)
  • The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming – Bula Chaudhury (India)
  • First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964)
  • First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957)
  • First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (1953)
  • First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)
  • First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952)
  • First man to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic – Charles Lindbergh (1927)
  • First person to cross Antarctic Circle  – James Cook (1773)
  • First people to reach the North Pole – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and  Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)
  • First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)
  • First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller(2003)
  • First woman to fly solo around the world – Jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)
  • First woman to fly solo across the English Channel – Harriet Quimby
  • First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen  – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy)(1978)
  • First woman to set foot on the North Pole – Ann Bancroft, USA (1986) Jointly developed by Sony and Philips (1978)
  • First Atom Bomb – “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)
  • First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961)
  • First human to walk on the Moon  – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)
  • First human to walk in space – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)

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