First in the World
Part(4)
China's first man in space – Yang Liwei
The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record– Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women's cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004)
The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)
The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming – Bula Chaudhury (India)
First Asian city to host Olympics – Tokyo, Japan (1964)
First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon – A Gibson (1957)
First woman to win a Grand Slam – Maureen Catherine (195 3)
First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)
First professional woman bullfighter – Patricia Mccormick (1952)
First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic – Charles Lindbergh (1927)
First person to cross Antarctic Circle – James Cook (1773)
First people to reach the North Pole– Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)
First person to conquer the Everest twice – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)
First person with only one arm to climb the Everest – American Gary Guller (2003)
First woman to fly solo around the world – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)
First woman to fly solo across the English Channel– Hariiet Quimby
First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen – Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978)
First woman to set foot on North Pole– Ann Bancroft, USA (1986)– Jointly developed by Sony and Philips (1978)
First Atom Bomb – “Little Boy ” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)
First manned space vehicle – Vostok 1,USSR (1961)
First human to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)
First human to walk in space– Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
