| Sr.No. | First | Person/ Country | Year/ Date |
| 1. | To reach Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tenzing | May 29, 1953 |
| 2. | To reach North Pole | Robert Peary | April 6, 1909 |
| 3. | To reach South Pole | Amundsen | December 14, 1911 |
| 4. | Religion of the world | Hinduism | 5500 BCE but certainly by c. 2300 BCE |
| 5. | Country to print book | China | Between 618 and 907 AD |
| 6. | Country to issue paper currency | China | 806 AD |
| 7. | Country to commence competitive examination in civil services | China | Between 7th to 10th century |
| 8. | President of U.S.A | George Washington | April 30, 1789 |
| 9. | Prime Minister of Britain | Robert Walpole | 1721 |
| 10. | Governor-General of the United Nations | Trygve Lie (Norway) | 2 February 1946 |
| 11. | Country to win Football World Cup | Uruguay | July 30, 1930 |
| 12. | Country to prepare Constitution | U.S.A. | June 21, 1788 |
| 13. | Governor-General of Pakistan | Mohd. Ali Jinnah | August 15, 1947 |
| 14. | Country to host NAM summit | Belgrade (Yugoslavia) | September 1-6, 1961 |
| 15. | European to attack India | Alexander The Great | 326 BC |
| 16. | European to reach China | Marco Pole | 1275 |
| 17. | European to fly an aeroplane | Wright Brothers | December 17, 1903 |
| 18. | Person to sail around the world | Magellan | 1519 |
| 19. | Country to send a man to moon | U.S.A. | July 20, 1969 |
| 20. | Country to launch artificial satellite in space | Russia | October 4, 1957 |
| 21. | Country to host the Modern Olympics | Greece | 1896 |
| 22. | City in which atom bomb was dropped | Hiroshima (Japan) | August 6, 1945 |
| 23. | Person to land on the moon | Neil Armstong, followed by Edwin E. Aldrin | 1969 |
| 24. | Shuttle to go to space | Columbia | January 16, 2003 |
| 25. | Spacecraft to reach Mars | Viking-1 | June 19, 1976 |
| 26. | Woman Prime Minister of England | Margaret Thatcher | 4 May 1979 |
| 27. | Muslim Prime Minister of a country | Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) | 2 December 1988 |
| 28. | Woman to climb Mount Everest | Mrs. Junko-Tabei (Japan) | 16 May, 1975 |
| 29. | Woman cosmonaut of the world | Valentina Tereshkova (Russia) | June 16, 1963 |
| 30. | Women Prime Minister of a country | Mrs. S. Banda Maike (Sri Lanka) | 1960 |
| 31. | Women President of UN General Assembly | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | 15 September 1953(62nd Session) |
| 32. | Man to fly into space | Yuri Gagarin (Russia) | April 12, 1961, |
| 33. | Batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut | Mohd. Azharuddin | 1984–85 series |
| 34. | Man to have climbed Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu | 1965 |
| 35. | U.S President to resign Presidency | Richard Nixon | 9 August 1974 |
| 36. | Country to issue stamps | Britain | 6 May 1840 |
| 37. | Climate-neutral country | Maldives | 2020 |
| 38. | Country to introduce internet voting | Estonia | 2001 |
| 39. | Country to ban plastic bag | Bangladesh | 2002 |
| 40. | Country to deploy 4G in Asia | India | 10 April 2012 |
| 41. | Country to ban human cloning | Britain | 2001 |
| 42. | Human to walk in space | Alexei Leonov | 1965 |
| 43. | Atom Bomb | Little Boy (dropped over Hiroshima) | 1945 |
| 44. | Manned space vehicle | Vostok 1, USSR | 1961 |
| 45. | Person to cross Antarctic Circle | James Cook | 1773 |
| 46. | Woman to set foot on North | Ann Bancroft, USA | 1986 |
| 47. | Blind man to scale Mt. Everest | Erik Weihenmayer, USA | May 25, 2001 |
| 48. | Residents of International Space station | Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) | 2 November 2000 |
| 49. | Woman to fly solo around the world | Jerrie Fredritz Mock | 1964 |
| 50. | Woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal | Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles | 1900 |
| 51. | Woman to win a Grand Slam | Maureen Catherine | 1953 |
| 52. | Woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel | Eileen Collins (U.S.A.) | July 23, 1999 |
| 53. | Woman President of a country | Maria Estela Peron | 1974 |
| 54. | Satallite in space | Sputnik I | October 4, 1957 |
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