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The first woman civilian police adviser of the U.N. : Kiran Bedi

First in the World

The first person to cross the Atlantic in an open wicker basket hot air balloon : David Hempleman Adams The first woman civilian police adviser of the U.N. : Kiran Bedi The first person in the world to land on the moon : Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin The first man to enter space : Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian) The first woman cosmonaut of the world : Velentina Tereshkova The first unmanned spaceship to have softlanded and lifted off from the moon to return to the earth : Luna-16 (USSR) Sept. 21, 1970 The first space vehicle to land on the moon : Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named Eagle The first space ship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them on the moon : Apollo11 The first country to send man to the moon : USA

The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon : Zond-5 First crew transfer between the orbiting space ships : Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station

 The first mission of a ling-up in space by manned space ships of USA and Soviet Union : Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission (ASTP) (launched on July 15 and linked up in space on July 17, 1975) The first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the USA : Remek (Czechoslovakia) The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter : USA The first to launch earth satellite or artificial baby moon : USSR The first spaceship in the world to sample moons crust : Surveyor-3 (USA) The first space vehicle to soft land on moon : Luna 9 (USSR) The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days) : Apollo-7 (USA) The first man to win 4 Olympic gold medals : Alvin Kranzein (USA) in 1900 The first lawn tennis player who won the Wimbledon championship for five years consecutively : Bjorn Borg First batsman to score three Test Century in three successive Tests on debut : Mohd. Azharuddin (India) Worlds first Cricketer to score more than 11,000 runs in his test carrier : Allan Border of Australia with more than 11,000 runs. The first person to reach the South Pole : Amundsen (Norway) The first person to have climbed Mount Everest : Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing 19th May, 1953 The first person to sail round the world : Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal) The First woman to conquer Mount Everest : Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan) The first man to have climber Mount Everest Twice : Nawang Gombu The first vessel ever to reach the North Pole by sailing thought the thick Arctic ice : Soviet Arktika Atomic-powered (ice-breaker) The leader of the expedition Ocean to Sky : Sir Edmund Hillary The first two mountaineers who reached the summit of Everest without using oxygen : Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner (Italy) The first woman Prime Minister of a country twice : Mrs. S. Bandarnaike (Sri Lanka) The first President of the USA: George Washington The first President of the Chinese Republic : Sun Yet Sen The first Governor-General of Pakistan : Mohd. Ali Jinnah The first European to visit China : Marco Polo The first US President to resign Presidency : Richard Nixon The first woman Ambassador of Britain : Anne Warburton The first woman Prime Minister of a European Country : Margaret Thatcher Woman Bishop : Rev Barbara C. Harris (USA) Lady President of a country : Maria Estela Person (Argentina) The first Muslim women to win Nobel Prize : Shirin Ebadi. Civilian Police Advisor in U.N. : Ms. Kiran Bedi. 400 Run maker in an inning of Test Cricket : Brian Lara Claimer of hat-trick in first over of test match : Irfan Pathan (India) One Thousand wicket taker in international cricket : M. Murlitharan (Sri Lanka) 16 thousand runs in ODI : Sachin Tendulkar (2008) Hitter of six sixes in an over in T-20 Match : Yuvraj Singh (India)

 4 wickets taler in 4 consecutive balls in ODI : Lasith Malinga (Srilanka) 600 Wickets taker & Century. maker in test cricket : Anil Kumble (India) (2008) 8 Gold Medal Winner in Olympic : Michael Phelps (USA) (2008) Double Century maker in one day cricket (mens) : Sachin Tendulkar (India)