FIRST IN THE WORLD
1.
First Woman President of the UN General Assembly
- Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)
2.
First Person to deliver a speech to the U N
General Assembly in Hindi - Atal Bihari Bajpayee (1977)
3. First Handicapped man to cross Strait of
Gibraltar (deaf and dumb) - Taranath Shenoy (India)
4. First
Man to climb Mount Everest twice - Nawang Gombu (Indian)
5.
First Member of British Parliament - Dadabhai Nauroji
(1862)
6.
First and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia
Sultan
7.
First Muslim Invader of India - Mohammad-bin-Qasim
(8th Century)
8. First
Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain
9. First
Muslim President of the Indian National Congress - Badruddin
Tayyabji
10.
First Muslim Woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary - Meera Sahib
Fatima Beevi (1989)
11.
First Wax statue of a Living Indian - Mahatma Gandhi at
Madame Tussaud's in 1939
12. First
Woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav (India, 1992 and 1993)
13. First
Batsman to score 3 test centuries in 3 successive tests on debut - Md. Azharuddin
(India)
14. First Bowler to claim
hat-trick in successive Tests - Wasim
Akram (Pakistan)
15. First
Governor–General of Pakistan - Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1947–48)
16. First Man to climb
Mount Everest - Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary
(1953)
17. First Man to enter
space (the first cosmonaut of the world) - Yuri Gagarin (Soviet Union)
18.
First Man to reach the South Pole - Ronald Amundsen (Norway)
19. First Man to set foot
on Moon - Neil Armstrong with Edwin Aldrin
(1969)
20. First Man to walk in
Space - Alexei Leonov (Russia)
21.
First person sails around the world - Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal)
22.
First person to fly Aeroplane - Wright Brothers
23.
First person to reach the North Pole - Robert
E. Peary (USA)
24.
First
Polar circumnavigation - Sir
Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton (Britain)
25.
First President of the Chinese Republic - Dr. Sun Yat Sun
26.
First President of the USA to visit India - D. Eisenhower
27.
First
President of USA - George
Washington
28.
First
Prime Minister of a country (Great Britain) - Sir Robert Walpole (Britain)
29. First space rocket to
hit the moon - Lunik-II
(Soviet Union)
30.
First space vehicle to soft land on the moon - Luna-9
(Soviet Union)
31.
First
to have skied to both North and South Poles and climbed Mount Everest - Erling Kagge (Norway)
32.
First
Woman Bishop - Rev.
Barbara C. Harris (USA)
33.
First Woman Cosmonaut of the world - Valentina
Tereshkova (Soviet Union)
34.
First Woman IAS Officer - Anna
Rajam George (1950)
35.
First Woman Prime Minister of a country in the world - Mrs. S. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka
36.
First Woman Prime Minister of Britain - Mrs. Margaret Thatcher
37.
First Woman to conquer Mt. Everest - Mrs. Junko Tabei of Japan
38.
First
Woman to reach North Pole - Mrs.
Karoline Michelson (Norway)
39.
First
Woman to reach South Pole - Mrs.
Fran Phipps (Canada)
FIRST IN THE WORLD PERSONS / COUNTRY
1. Man to
sail around the world a. Magellan
2. Asian to
win Nobel Prize for Literature b. Rabindranath
Tagore (India, 1913)
3. Chinese
Pilgrim to Visit India c. Fahien (401–410)
4. Bowler to
claim hat-trick in successive Tests d. Wasim Akram (Pakistan)
5. Foreigner
to receive Bharat Ratna e. Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
6. Governor–General
of Pakistan f. Mohammad
Ali Jinnah (1947–48)
7. Man
Cosmonaut in Space g. Yuri Gagarin (USSR, 1961)
8. Man to
climb Mount Everest twice h. Nawang
Gombu (Indian)
9. Man to
set foot on Moon i. Neil
Armstrong with Edwin Aldrin (1969)
10. Man to
walk in Space j. Alexei Leonov (Russia)
11. Man to
climb Mount Everest k. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary
(1953)
12. Muslim
Invader of India l. Mohammad-bin-Qasim (8th Century, A.D.)
13. Woman
Cosmonaut in Space m. Valentina Tereshkova (Russia, 1963)
14. Woman
President of UN General Assembly n. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (India, 1953)
15. Woman to climb Mount Everest twice o. Santosh Yadav (India, 1992 and 1993)
16. Woman to climb Mount Everest p. Junko
Tabei (Japan, 1975)
17. Woman
Prime Minister q. Sirimavo
Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka, 1960)
18. Man reaches
to South Pole r. Amundsen
19. Person to
fly Aeroplane s. Wright
brothers
20. Batsman to score three test centuries in
three successive tests on debut - t. Md.
Azharuddin (India)
First in the World
Field
|
Name
|
Year
|
Man to reach South Pole
|
Roald Amundsen (Norway)
|
1911
|
Man to reach North Pole
|
Robert E. Peary (USA)
|
1909
|
Woman to reach North Pole
|
Mrs. Karoline Mikkelsen (Norway)
|
1935
|
Woman to reach South Pole
|
Mrs. Fran Phipps (Canada)
|
1971
|
Man to go to space
|
Yuri Gagarin (former USSR)
|
1961
|
Man to set foot on the Moon
|
Neil Alden Armstrong (USA)
|
1969
|
Man to walk in Space
|
Alexei Leonov (Former USSR)
|
1965
|
Woman Cosmonaut in Space
|
Valentina Terehkova (former USSR)
|
1963
|
Man to climb Mount Everest
|
Tenzing Norgay (Nepal)
|
1953
|
Woman to climb Mount Everest
|
Junko Tabei (Japan)
|
1975
|
President of USA
|
George Washington
|
1789
|
Foreign invader of India
|
Alexander the Great (Greece)
|
326bc
|
Woman to cross the Strait of Gibraltar
|
Arti Pradhan (India)
|
1988
|
Handicapped man to cross Strait of Gibraltar (deaf and dumb)
|
Taranath Shenoy (India)
|
1988
|
President of Chinese Republic
|
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
|
1921-1925
|
Chairman of People's Republic of China
|
Mao Tse Tung
|
1949-1976
|
Man to sail around the world
|
Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal)
|
1519-1521
|
First Prime Minister of a country
|
Sir Robert Walpole (Britain)
|
1721-1742
|
Lady Prime Minister of country
|
Srimavo Bhandarnaike (Sri Lanka)
|
1970-1977
|
Lady Prime Minister of England
|
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher
|
1979-1990
|
Polar circumnavigation
|
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton (Britain)
|
1979-1982
|
Chinese traveler to India
|
Fahien
|
405-411
|
Woman Bishop
|
Rev. Barbara C. Harris (USA)
|
1988
|
First to have skied to both North and South Poles, and climbed
Mount Everest
|
Erling Kagge (Norway)
|
1994
|
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