First man to reach South Pole |
Ronald Amundsen |
First man to reach North Pole |
Robert peary |
First country to print books |
China |
First country to issue paper currency |
China |
First men to climb Mt. Everest |
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary |
First country to start Civil Services Competition |
China |
First President of United States of America |
George Washington |
First Prime Minister of Great Britain |
Robert Walpole |
First Secretary General of United Nations |
Trigve Li |
First country to make education compulsory |
Prussia |
First country to win the World Cup Football |
Uruguay (1930) |
First country to make a constitution |
United States of America |
Pakistan's first Governor General |
Mohammed Ali Jinnah |
First European to visit China |
Marco Polo |
First men to fly an aero plane |
Wright Brothers |
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First person to sail around the world |
Ferdinand Magellan |
First country to send human to Moon |
United States of America |
First country to launch satellite into space |
Russia |
First country to host the modem Olympic games |
Greece |
First President of the Republic of China |
Dr. Sun Yat-sen |
First city to be attacked with Atom bomb |
Heroshima (Japan) |
First Radio Telescope Satellite was launched into space |
Japan |
First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India |
V.I. Bulganin |
First University of the world |
Taxila University |
First man to set foot on the Moon |
Neil Armstrong (U.S.A.) |
First man to go into space |
Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) |
First Space Shuttle launched |
Columbia |
First Space Ship landed on Mars |
Viking-I (1976) |
First Woman Prime Minister of England |
Margaret Thacher |
First Woman Prime Minister of any muslim country |
Benazir Bhutto |
First Woman Prime Minister of a country |
S. Bhandamayake (Sri Lanka) |