First in the World

First woman President in the world : Marma Estela [ Argentina ]

First Female Prime Minister in the world : Srimavo Bhandarnaike [ Sri Lanka ]

First Female British Prime Minister : Margaret Thatcher

First Female Prime Minister of any Muslim country : Benazir Bhutto

First woman to climb Mount Everest : Junko Tabei [ Japan ]

First woman to successfully climb K2, the world’s second highest mountain peak : Wanda Rutkiewicz

First female Amputee to scale Mount Everest : Arunima Sinha

First person to be born in the continent of Antarctica : Emilio Palma

First woman Secretary General of SAARC : Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed [ Maldives ]

First Woman President of United Nations General Assembly : Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

First woman to travel to space : Valentina Tereshkova

First person to swim across English Channel : Matthew Webb

First woman to swim across English Channel : Gertrude Ederle

First Radio Telescope Satellite launched into Space : HALCA [ Japan ]

First country to make Constitution : America

First Artificial Satellite : Sputnik 1 [ October , 1957 ]

First actor to win the Oscar Award : Emil Jannings

First country to grant women the right to vote : New Zealand

First country to appoint Lokpal : Sweden

First country to introduce GST [ Goods and Services Tax ] : France

First country to impose Carbon Tax : New Zealand

First persons to climb Mount Everest : Sir Edmund Hillary [ New Zealand ] and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay [ 1953 ]

First man to reach South Pole : Ronald Amundsen

First man to reach North Pole : Robert Peary

First President of USA : George Washington

First Prime Minister of the Great Britain : Robert Walpole

First Secretary General of the United Nations : Trygve Lee

First person to sail around the world  : Ferdinand Magellan

First country to make education compulsory : Prussia

First country to host the FIFA World Cup : Uruguay [ 1930 ]

First country to host the Asian Games : India [ 1951 ]

First Commonwealth Games were held in : Hamilton , Canada [ 1930 ]

First country to win the FIFA World Cup : Uruguay

First country to win the Men’s FIH World Cup : Pakistan [ 1971 ]

First country to win the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup : West Indies [ 1975 ]

First country to win the Rugby World Cup : ENew Zealand [ 1987 ]

First country to host the modern Olympics games : Greece [ 1896 ]

First Asian country to host the Summer Olympics : Tokyo[ 1964 ]

First Winter Olympic Games were held in : Chamonix , France [ 1924 ]

First Paralympic Games were held in : Rome , Italy stela [ 1960 ]

First Winter Paralympic Games were held in :Örnsköldsvik, Sweden [ 1976 ]

First city to be attacked with Atom bomb : Hiroshima

First President of the Republic of China : Yuan Shikai

First Russian [ Soviet ] Prime Minister to visit India : Nikolai Bulganin

First man who palced his foot on the moon : Neil Armstrong [ 1969 ]

First man to go into space : Yuri Gagarin

First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature : Sully Prudhomme

First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace : Jean Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy

First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics : WC Rontgen

First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry : Jacobus Henricus Van’t Hoff

First man to win Nobel Prize for Medicine : Emil Adolf Von Behrig

First man to win Nobel Prize for Economics : Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen

First Space Tourist [ Male] : Dennis Tito

First Space Tourist [ Female ] : Mrs Anousheh Ansari

First man to climb the Seven Summits : Patrick Morrow [ 1986 ]

First woman to win the ‘Miss Universe’ title : Ami Kuusela [ 1952 ]

First batsman to score century in Test Cricket : Charles Bannerman

First batsman to score double century in Test Cricket : Bill Murdock

First batsman to score triple century in Test Cricket : Andy Sandham

First woman to receive a doctorate degree : Elena Cornara Piscopia