Record Makers and Breakers

Record Makers and Breakers
The first person to reach Mount Everest		Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
The first person to reach North Pole		Robert Peary
The first person to reach South Pole		Amundsen
The first religion of the world		Hinduism
The first country to print book		China
The first country to issue paper currency		China
The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services		China
The first President of the U.S.A		George Washington
The first Prime Minister of Britain		Robert Walpole
The first Governor General of the United Nations		Trigveli (Norway)
The first country to win football World cup		Uruguay
The first country to prepare a constitution		U.S.A
The first Governor General of Pakistan		Mohd. Ali Jinnah
The first country to host NAM summit		Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first European to attack India		Alexander, The Great
The first European to reach China		Marco Polo
The first person to fly aeroplane		Wright Brothers
The first person to sail round the world		Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon		U.S.A
The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space		Russia
The first country to host the modern Olympics		Greece
The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped		Hiroshima (Japan)
The first person to land on the moon		Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The first shuttle to go in space		Columbia
The first spacecraft to reach on Mars		Viking-I
The first woman Prime Minister of England		Margaret Thatcher
The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country		Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first woman Prime Minister of a country		Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
The first woman to climb Mount Everest		Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
The first woman cosmonaut of the world		Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly		Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first man to fly into space		Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut		Mohd. Azharuddin
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice		Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency		Richard Nixon