First in the World: A Complete List

A close look at the history of mankind would reveal the idea that human being has an innate tendency to evolve, explore and adventure. Many people have maintained this innate human tendency which also verifies the truthfulness of this idea.

Here, we are giving a complete list of ‘First in the World’ which is composed of all those human explorations and adventures, expeditions, discoveries and inventions which were made the first time in the history of mankind.

1. The first person to reach Mount Everest    

Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary

2. The first person to reach the North Pole 

Robert Peary

3. The first person to reach the South Pole

Amundsen

4. The first religion of the world  

Hinduism

5. The first country to print book

China

6. The first country to issue paper currency  

China

7. The first country to commence a competitive examination in civil services   

China

8. The first President of the U.S.A.       

George Washington

9. The first Prime Minister of Britain    

Robert Walpole

10. The first Governor-General of the United Nations

Trygve Lie (Norway)

11. The first country to win the football World cup

Uruguay

12. The first country to prepare a constitution

U.S.A.

13. The first Governor-General of Pakistan      

Mohd. Ali Jinnah

14. The first country to host NAM summit       

Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

15. The first European to attack India    

Alexander, The Great

16. The first European to reach China   

Marco Polo

17. The first person to fly an aeroplane       

Wright Brothers

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18. The first person to sail around the world     

Magellan

19. The first country to send a man to the moon

U.S.A.

20. The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space      

Russia

21. The first country to host the modern Olympics   

Greece

22. The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped     

Hiroshima (Japan)

23. The first person to land on the moon         

Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin

24. The first shuttle to go in space        

Columbia

25. The first spacecraft to reach on Mars

Viking—I

26. The first woman Prime Minister of England        

Margaret Thatcher

27. The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country      

Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

28. The first woman Prime Minister of a country       

Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)

29. The first woman to climb Mount Everest    

Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)

30. The first woman cosmonaut of the world   

Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)

31. The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly       

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

32. The first man to fly into space

Yuri Gagarin (Russia)

33. The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut 

Mohd. Azharuddin

34. The first man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice      

Nawang Gombu

35. The first U.S. President to resign Presidency       

Richard Nixon

Above list of "First in the World" will be very helpful for enhancing the General Knowledge for Competitive Exam (like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.), Bank Exam and Entrance Exam".

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