| Field |
Name |
Year |
| Man to reach South Pole |
Roald Amundsen (Norway) |
1911 |
| Man to reach North Pole |
Robert E. Peary (USA) |
1909 |
| Woman to reach North Pole |
Mrs. Karoline Mikkelsen (Norway) |
1935 |
| Woman to reach South Pole |
Mrs. Fran Phipps (Canada) |
1971 |
| Man to go to space |
Yuri Gagarin (former USSR) |
1961 |
| Man to set foot on the Moon |
Neil Alden Armstrong (USA) |
1969 |
| Man to walk in Space |
Alexei Leonov (Former USSR) |
1965 |
| Woman Cosmonaut in Space |
Valentina Terehkova (former USSR) |
1963 |
| Man to climb Mount Everest |
Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) |
1953 |
| Woman to climb Mount Everest |
Junko Tabei (Japan) |
1975 |
| President of USA |
George Washington |
1789 |
| Foreign invader of India |
Alexander the Great (Greece) |
326bc |
| Woman to cross the Strait of Gibraltar |
Arti Pradhan (India) |
1988 |
| Handicapped man to cross Strait of Gibraltar (deaf and dumb) |
Taranath Shenoy (India) |
1988 |
| President of Chinese Republic |
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen |
1921-1925 |
| Chairman of People's Republic of China |
Mao Tse Tung |
1949-1976 |
| Man to sail around the world |
Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal) |
1519-1521 |
| First Prime Minister of a country |
Sir Robert Walpole (Britain) |
1721-1742 |
| Lady Prime Minister of country |
Srimavo Bhandarnaike (Sri Lanka) |
1970-1977 |
| Lady Prime Minister of England |
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher |
1979-1990 |
| Polar circumnavigation |
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton (Britain) |
1979-1982 |
| Chinese traveler to India |
Fahien |
405-411 |
| Woman Bishop |
Rev. Barbara C. Harris (USA) |
1988 |
| First to have skied to both North and South Poles, and climbed Mount Everest |
Erling Kagge (Norway) |
1994 |
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