First in World GK - Pt IV

 

First	Country / Person
The first country to send a man to the moon	U.S.A.
The first country to win the football World cup	Uruguay
The first European to attack India	Alexander, The Great
The first European to reach China	Marco Polo
The first Governor-General of Pakistan	Mohd. Ali Jinnah
The first Governor-General of the United Nations	Trygve Lie (Norway)
The first man to fly into space	Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice	Nawang Gombu
The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country	Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first person to fly an aeroplane	Wright Brothers
The first person to land on the moon	Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The first person to reach the North Pole	Robert Peary
The first person to reach the South Pole	Amundsen
The first person to sail around the world	Magellan
The first President of the U.S.A.	George Washington
The first Prime Minister of Britain	Robert Walpole
The first religion of the world	Hinduism
The first shuttle to go in space	Columbia
The first spacecraft to reach on Mars	Viking—I
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency	Richard Nixon
The first woman cosmonaut of the world	Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman Prime Minister of a country	Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
The first woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
To reach Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tenzing
Woman President of a country	Maria Estela Peron
Woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel	Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)
Woman to fly solo around the world	Jerrie Fredritz Mock
Woman to set foot on North	Ann Bancroft, USA
Woman to win a Grand Slam	Maureen Catherine
Woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal	Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles
Women President of UN General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit