01.
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Chairman of Peoples
Republic of China
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Mao-Tse-Tung
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02.
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President of the
Chinese Republic
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Dr. Sun Yat Sen
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03.
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President of U.S.A
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George Washington
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04.
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Chinese Traveller to
India
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Fahein
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05.
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Foreign Invader to
India
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Alexander the Great
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06.
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Person to reach
South Pole
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Amundsen
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07.
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Person to reach
North Pole
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Robert Pearey
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08.
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Person in Space
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Yuri Gagarin
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09.
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Person on Moon
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Neil Armstrong
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10.
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Lady to climb Mount
Everest
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Junko Taibei
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11.
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European to visit
China
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Marco Polo
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12.
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Place where atom
bomb was dropped
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Hiroshima
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13.
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Man to walk in Space
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Alexei Leonov
|
14.
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Woman cosmonaut in
Space
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Valentina Tereshkova
|
15.
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Woman Prime Minister
of a country
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Mrs. Srimavo
Bhandarnaike
|
16.
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Woman President of a
country
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Maria Estela Peron
|
17.
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Woman to Command a
Space Mission
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Colonel Eileen
Collins (U.S.A.)
|
18.
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The first residents
of International Space station
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Bill Shepherd (USA),
Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) |
19.
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The first
blind man to scale Mt. Everest
|
Erik
Weihenmayer
(USA, May 25, 2001) |
20.
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The first Muslim
woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International
|
lrine Zubeida Khan
|
21.
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The first space
astronaut to go into space seven times till date
|
Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)
|
22.
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The first South
African to become the second space tourist
|
Mark Shuttleworth
|
23.
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The first woman
Prime Minister of South Korea
|
Ms. Chang Sang
|
24.
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The first youngest
grandmaster of the world in chess
|
Sergey
Karjakin (Ukraine)
|
25.
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The first adventurer
flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft
|
Felix
Baumgartner (July 2003)
|
26.
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China's first man in
space
|
Yang Liwei
|
27.
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The first Muslim
woman to receive Nobel Prize
|
Shirin Ebadi (Nobel
Peace Prize 2003)
|
28.
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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 West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004) |
29.
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The first woman of
the world to climb Mt. Everest four times
|
Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)
|
30.
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The first woman to
cross seven important seas of the world by swimming
|
Bula Chaudhury (India)
|
31.
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The first aircraft
pilot to round the entire world non-stop by his 2 engine aircraft in 67 hours
|
Steve Fossett (March 2005)
|
32.
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The first woman to
be appointed as a Governor of a province in Afghanistan
|
Habiba Sorabhi
|
33.
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The first woman of
the world to swim across five continents
|
Bula Chaudhury (India) (April 2005)
|
34.
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The first woman
athlete to touch 5.0 meter mark in pole vault
|
Ms. Yelena
Isinbayeva
(Russian, July 2005) |
35.
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The first Hindu
Chief Justice of Pakistani Supreme Court
|
Justice Rana Bhagwan
Das
Took over on Sept. 2, 2005 as Acting Chief Justice |
36.
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The first duly
elected woman President of an African country
|
Allen Johnson
Sirleaf(elected
President of Liberia in Nov. 2005) |
37.
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The first woman
Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
|
Shanshad
Akhtar
(Appointed in Dec. 2005) |
38.
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The first woman
Chancellor of Germany
|
Angela Merkel
(Took over in Nov. 2005) |
39.
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The first woman
President of Chile
|
Dr. Michelle
Bachelet
|
40.
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The first woman
Prime Minister of Jamaica
|
Portia Simpson
Miller (Feb. 2006)
|
41.
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The first woman
foreign Secretary of England
|
Margaret
Backett (May 2006)
|
42.
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The first double
amputee to scale Mt. Everest
|
Mark Inglis (May 15, 2006)
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