First in the World General Knowledge ======================== The first persons 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 prepare a constitution – U.S.A The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah The first country to host NAM summit –Yugoslavia The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great The first European to reach China – Marco Polo The first person to fly aero plane – 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 First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia) 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 to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan) The first woman cosmonaut of the world – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia) The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut – Mohd. Azharuddin
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