FIRST IN THE WORLD

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)