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List of First in the World
| First men to climb Mt. Everest | Sherpa Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May 1953) |
| First man to reach North Pole | Robert Edwin Peary |
| First man to reach South Pole | Roald Amundsen |
| First religion of the world | Sanatan Dharma |
| First country to print books | China |
| First country to issue paper currency | China |
| 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 | Trygve Lie (Norway) |
| First country to make education compulsory | Prussia/ Germany |
| 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 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
| First summit of NAM was organized in | Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) |
| First European to visit China | Marco Polo |
| First man to fly an airplane | Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Right) |
| 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 (former USSR) |
| First country to host the modern Olympic games | Greece |
| First President of the Republic of China | Dr. Sun Yat-sen |
| First city to be attacked with Atom bomb | Hiroshima (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 | Takshashila / Taxila University 800 BC |
| First man to set foot on the Moon | Neil Armstrong (U.S.A.) |
| First man to go into space | Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (USSR) |
| First Space Shuttle launched | Columbia (April 12, 1981) |
| First Space Ship landed on Mars | Viking-I (July 20, 1976) |
| First Woman Prime Minister of England | Margaret Thacher |
| First Woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country | Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) |
| First Woman Prime Minister of a country | Sirimavo Bhandarnaike (Sri Lanka) |
| First Woman cosmonaut in space | Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) |
| First Woman to climb Mt. Everest | Junko Tabei (Japan) |
| First female amputee in the world to climb Mt. Everest | Arunima Sinha |
| First deaf and dumb to cross the Strait of Gibraltar | Taranath Shenoy (India) |
| First Woman President of UN General Assembly | Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953) |
| First European Invader of Indian soil | Alexander, The Great |
| First Woman to reach the North Pole, First Woman to Ski across Antarctica, First Woman to reach South Pole, First Woman to cross Arctic ice to the North Pole | Ann Bancroft |
| First Woman to reach Antarctica | Caroline Mikkelsen’s |
| First Woman to be a working member of an Antarctic Expedition | Jackie Ronne |
| First man to draw the map of earth | Anaximander (610-542 BC) |
| First man to compile Encyclopaedia | Aspheosis (Athens) |
| The oldest man to climb Mt. Everest | Yuichiro Miura (Japan), 2013 |
| First Asian to win Wimbledon Trophy | Arthur Ashe (U.S.A.) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature | Sully Prudhomme (France) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace | Jean H. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Passy (France) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics | W.C. Rontgen (Germany) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry | J.H. Van’t Hoff (Howlland) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Medicine | Emil Adolf Von Behrig (Germany) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Economics | Ragnar Frisch (Norway) & Jan Tinbergen (Howlland) |
| First Woman President of a country | Marma Estela I.M. Cortas de Peron (Argentina) |
| First Space Tourist (Male) | Dennis Tito (U.S.A.) |
| First Space Tourist (Female) | Mrs. Anousheh Ansari (Irani American) |
| First Person to conduct a Spacewalk | Alexei Leonov |
| First Queen of Britain | Lady Jane Grey |
| First President (Woman) | Marma Estela ‘Isabel’ Martinez Cartas de Peron (Argentina) |
| Oldest person to climb Mt. Everest | Yuichiro Miura (Japan) |
| First Woman to swim across English Channel | Gertrude Ederle (US) |
| First country to legalize euthanasia | Netherlands |
| First country to issue Bank Note | Sweden (1661) |
| First country to provide citizenship to a Robot (Sophia) | Saudi Arabia |