First in the World

Part (3)

 The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon

 Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein

 Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great

 Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin

 Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong

 The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei

 The first European to visit China – Marco Polo

 Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov

 The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike

 The first woman President of a country – Maria Estela Peron

 The first woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)

 First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz Singer ” (1927).

 The first residents of International Space station– Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)

 The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001)

 The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International – lrine Zubeida Khan

 The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)

 The first South African to become the second space tourist – Mark Shuttleworth

 The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea – Ms. Chang Sang

 The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)

 The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)