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1. The first person to reach Mount Everest

Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary

2. The first person to reach North Pole

Robert Peary

3. The first person to reach 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 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

Trigveli (Norway)

11. The first country to win football World cup

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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 aeroplane

Wright Brothers

List of Biggest, Highest, Largest and Smallest things in India

18. The first person to sail round the world

Magellan

19. The first country to send 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

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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

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