Here is a list of the events that happened 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 : Apollo-11 ● 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 moon’s 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) ● World’s 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)