First in 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

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