List of First in World

Significance	Personalities
First Woman to Head UN Political Chief	Rosemary Dicarlo
First Player to Score 100 Goals for One Club	Christiano Ronaldo
Nepal’s First Woman President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
First Person to Reach Mount Everest	Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
First Person to Reach North Pole	Robert Peary
First Person to Reach South Pole	Amundsen
The First Person to Sail Round the World	Ferdinand Magellan
The First Person to Fly Aeroplane	Wright Brothers
The first person to land on the moon	Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The First Person to Fly Aeroplane	Wright Brothers
First Woman President of a Country	Marma Estella ‘Isabel’ Martinez Cartas de Peron
The First Person to Reach in Space	Yuri Gagarin
First Person Perform the Heart Transplantation	Dr.Christian Bernard
The First Person to Win Nobel Prize Twice	Marie Curie
First Person to Swim Across English channel	Captain Mathew Web in 1875
First Woman to Climb Mount Everest	Junko Tabei
First Woman Prime Minister of Any Muslim Country	Benazir Bhutto
First Person to Draw the Map of Earth	Anaximander
First Ever Woman Prime Minister of Country	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
First Woman President of a Country	Maria Estela Piron
First Space Tourist	Dennis Tito

Significance	Achievers
First country to legalise Euthanasia	Netherland
First country to recognise ‘third gender’ on census forms	Nepal
First country to require SMS for aircraft entry	Bermuda
First country to draft its constitution on iPad	Hungary
First country to account for natural assets globally	India
First country to ban fur for fashion week events	Norway
First country to slap ‘Fat tax’ on food products	Denmark
First country to use the Arabic language for domain name	Egypt
First country to sign biodiversity protocol	Colombia
First country to block 100000 websites	Thailand
First country to monitor every car journey	Britain
First country to ban amalgam fillings	Norway
First country to ban use of animal circuses	Bolivia
First country to have cruise manoeuvrable Missile	India
First country to approve stem cell therapy	South Korea
First country in the world to introduce internet voting	Estonia
First country to launch secret	Denmark
First country to use bivalent polio vaccine	Afghanistan
First country to adopt the International Labour Organisation (ILO)	Brazil
First crossword puzzle in the world was published	By London Sunday Express
First country to make a constitution	United States of America
First country to appoint Lokpal	Sweden
First Asian city to host Olympic game	Tokyo, Japan
First country printed book	China
First country to start paper currency	China
First country to start civil service commission	China
First country to make education compulsory	Prussia
First country to win world cup football	Uruguay
First country to organize NAM summit	Belgrade
First country to host modern Olympic	Greece
First country to set radio telescope satellite into space	Japan
First country to ban capital punishment	Venezuela
First country to give constitutional status to animal rights	Switzerland
First country to give voting right to women	New Zealand
First country to set carbon tax	New Zealand
First country to start VAT (Value Added Tax)	Brazil and Germany
First country to start plastic currency	Australia
First country to sign nuclear agreement with India	France
First country to send human to moon	USA
First spaceship landed on Mars	VIKING ­– 1
First space shuttle launched	Columbia
First religion of the world	Sanatan Dharma
First University of the world	Taxila University
First country to brings out the FIAT	Italy
First country to issue stamps	Great Britain
First animated colour cartoon of full feature length	Snow white and seven dwarf
First country in Asia to have a UNESCO category one institute	India
First country to sign enforcement for sentences	Italy
First country to be affected by industrial revolution	Great Britain
First country to sign agreements to set up nuclear reactors in India	France
First country to use iris scans on ID cards	Mexico
First developing country to receive doses of donated H1N1 swine flu vaccines	Mongolia
First Developing country to contribute to crop Benefit Sharing Fund	Indonesia
First country in the world to limit banker’s bonuses	France
First European country to directly receive Azerbaijani gas	Greece