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)