The first person 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 Prime Minister of Britain
Robert Walpole

The first Governor General of the United Nations
Trigveli (Norway)

The first country to win football World cup
Uruguay

The first country to prepare a constitution
U.S.A

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 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
Velentina 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

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