First person in the 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)

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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

36.

The first duly elected woman President of an African country

Allen Johnson Sirleaf (elected
President of Liberia in Nov. 2005)

37.

The first woman Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan

Shanshad Akhtar
(Appointed in Dec. 2005)

38.

The first woman Chancellor of Germany

Angela Merkel
(Took over in Nov. 2005)

39.

The first woman President of Chile

Dr. Michelle Bachelet

40.

The first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica

Portia Simpson Miller (Feb. 2006)

41.

The first woman foreign Secretary of England

Margaret Backett (May 2006)

42.

The first double amputee to scale Mt. Everest

Mark Inglis (May 15, 2006)