List of Firsts in The World

The first person/s 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 Secretary General of the United Nations: Trygve Lie

The first country to win football World cup: Uruguay

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 in the space: Russia

The first country to host the modern Olympics: Greece

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 Woman Prime Minister of a country: Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

The first woman Woman Prime Minister of a country: Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)

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 man to fly into space: Yuri Gagarin (Russia)

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