FIRST IN THE WORLD

 

FIRST IN THE WORLD

 The first persons to reach Mount Everest : Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary

 The first person to reach North Pole : Robert Peary

 The first person to reach South Pole : Amundsen

 The first religion of the world : Hinduism

 The first country to print book : China

 The first country to issue paper currency : China

 The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services : China

 The first President of the U.S.A : George Washington

 The first Prime Minister of Britain : RobertWalpole

 The first Governor General of the United Nations : Trigveli (Norway)

 The first country to prepare a constitution : U.S.A

 The first Governor General of Pakistan : Mohd. Ali Jinnah

 The first country to host NAM summit : Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

 The first European to attack India : Alexander, The Great

 The first European to reach China : Marco Polo

 The first person to fly aeroplane : Wright Brothers

 The first person to sail round the world : Magellan

 The first country to send man to the moon : U.S.A

 The first country to launch Artificial satellite inthe space : Russia

 The first country to host the modern Olympics : Greece

 First human in space : Yuri Gagarin (Russia)

 The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped : Hiroshima (Japan)

 The first person to land on the moon Neil Armstrong followed by : Edwin E. Aldrin

 The first shuttle to go in space : Columbia

 The first spacecraft to reach on Mars : Viking-I

 The first woman Prime Minister of England : Margaret Thatcher

 The first muslim female Prime Minister of a country : Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

 The first woman to climb Mount Everest : Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)

 The first woman cosmonaut of the world : Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)

 The first woman President of the U.N. GeneralAssembly : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut : Muhammad Azharuddin

 The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice : Nawang Gombu

 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 : JunkoTaibei

 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 jazzSinger” (1927).

 The first residents of International Space station : Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and SergeiKrikalev (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 seventimes 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 inches : Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)

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

 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 WestIndies 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 (1953)

 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 ReinholdMessner, (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) 10 Tallest People in History

History abounds with tales of hugely tall men and women, but it‟s only in the past couple of hundred years that we‟ve had medical explanations for the phenomenon. Pituitary gigantism, Marfan syndrome, eunuchoid tallness, Sotos syndrome, and acromegaly are all conditions that can cause those afflicted to grow beyond the human norm.

Pituitary gigantism is by far the most common cause of extreme height. It usually occurs due to over-secretion of growth hormone from cells in the pituitary gland or as a result of a tumor on this same gland at the base of the brain. Many of the world‟s largest individuals from the tallest person ever, Robert Wadlow, to the world‟s current tallest living man, Sultan Kosen have suffered from conditions related to their pituitary glands. Yet the stories of the individuals affected by gigantism are as interesting as the causes behind their conditions. Read on for the 10 tallest recorded people in history.

1. Robert Wadlow – 8 ft 11 in (2 m 72 cm)

Robert Wadlow, “The Giant of Illinois.” Having reached a height of 8 ft 11 in, Wadlow is the tallest confirmed person to have ever lived. Born in Alton,

Illinois (US) in 1918, he suffered from hypertrophy of the pituitary gland, causing him to produce massive amounts of human growth hormone.

This condition led to Wadlow‟s height constantly increasing throughout his life.

By the time he was eight, he was already 6 ft 2 inch and weighed 169 lbs (77 kg). The Illinois resident was so large that a special desk had to be built for him in school. Doctors at the time had no treatment for this kind of hormonal imbalance.

Wadlow suffered from a number of ailments (مرض،بیماری (due to his unusual condition. He had trouble moving around his college campus because of his brittle bones and needed to wear leg braces towards the end of his life. He also had minimal sensation in his feet. In the end, during a professional appearance Wadlow made in Manistee, Michigan, a faulty leg brace gave him a blister that went on to become infected. Emergency surgery and blood transfusions failed to save him, and he passed away in his sleep on July 15, 1940. He was only 22 years old. Over 30,000