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First in World List

First in world list of various persons related to different field of life.

First in World : Government & Administration
• First president of United State of America – George Washington
• First in World : Nation to start Civil Services Exams – China
• First Prime Minister of Great Britain – Robert Walpole
• First Woman Prime Minister of England – Margaret Thatcher
• First woman Prime Minister of any country in World – S Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka)
• First woman Prime Minister of a Muslim Country – Benazir Bhutto
• First in World : Woman President of UN General Assembly – Vijayalakshmi Pandit
• First woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron (Argentina)
• First Secretary General of United Nations – Trigve – Li
• First in World : Country to make education compulsory – Prussia
• First country to make a constitution – United States
• Pakistan’s first Governor General – Md Ali Jinnah
• First summit of NAM was organized in – Belgrade (former Yugoslavia)
• First President of Republic of China – Dr Sun Yat Sen
• First university of World – Taxila university (Present in Pakistan)

First in World : Sports and Adventure
• First country to win World cup Football – Uruguay
• First country to host the modern Olympics – Greece
• First Asian to win Wimbledon Trophy – Arthur Ashe
• First man to climb Mount Everest – Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Sir Edmund Hilary (1953)
• First Blind person to climb Mount Everest – Erin Weihenmayer, USA, 2001
• First Eldest man to climb Mount Everest – Richard Wass
• Youngest Woman to climb Mount Everest – Dicky Dolma (at age of 19, in year 1993)
• First woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Tabei (Japan)
• First woman to reach North Pole – Ms Fran
• First woman to reach Antarctica – Caroline Michelson
• First man to reach North Pole – Robert Peary
• First man to reach south Pole – Ronald Amundsen
• First person to sail around the world – Ferdinand Magellan
• First woman to sail around the world alone – Kay Cottee (in 1988, took 189 days)
• First man to cross English Channel – Matthew Webb (1875)
• Yongest man to cross Strait of Gibraltar – Shubham Vanmali, India (at age of 18, in year 2014)
• First deaf and dumb to cross the Strait of Gibraltar – Taranath Shenoy (India)

First in World : Printing
• First in world : Nation to print books/newspaper – China
• First in World : Nation to print currency – China

First in World : Visitors
• First European to visit China – Marco Polo
• First Russian Prime Minister to visit India – V I Bulganian

First in World : Science and Technology
• First men to fly aeroplane – Wright Brothers
• First city to be attacked by Atom Bomb – Hiroshima, Japan (6 Aug 1945)
• First man to set foot on moon – Neil Armstrong (USA)
• First in world : Man to go to space – Yuri Gagarin (USSR)
• First space shuttle which landed on Mars – Viking 1 (1976)
• First in World : First Space Shuttle launched – Columbia
• First country to send human to moon – USA
• First country to launch satellite to space – Russia (former USSR)
• First Space Tourist – Denis Tito (USA)
• First space tourist (Female) – Mrs. Anousheh Ansari (Irani American)
• First Space Ship to land on Moon – Luna 2, (USSR) in 1959
• First Spaceship to carry Human to Moon – Apollo 11 (1969) carrying Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins
• First Woman Cosmonaut – Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)
• First man to draw the map of Earth – Anaximander
• First man to compile Encyclopaedia – Aspheosis (Athens)
• First Multi Reel Film of World – The Story of Kelly Gang, 1906
• First Human Clone – Baby Eve (Allegedly, 2002)
• First Clone animal – Dolly Sheep (1997)

First in World : Prestigious Awards
• First man to win Noble Prize for Literature – Rene FA & Sulli Pradhom (France)
• First man to win Noble Prize for Peace – Jin F Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Peiry (France)
• First man to win Noble prize for Physics – W K Roentgen (Germany)
• First man to win Noble Prize for Chemistry – J H Wenthoff (Holland)
• First man to win Noble prize for Medicine – A E Wonn Behrig (Germany)
• First man to win Noble Prize in Economics – Rangar Fish (Norway) & John Tinbergen(Holland)

 

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