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Unit-2 Our World
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First in the World
First in the World
Some important events in the history of world are given below :
1. First woman president of Bharat – Pratibha Devisingh Patil
2. First person to land on the Moon – Neil Armstrong
3. First country to win the football World Cup – Uruguay
4. First person to scale Mt. Everest – Edmund Hillary
5. First country on which an atom bomb was dropped – Japan (Hiroshima)
6. First President of United State of America – George Washington
7. First country to issue paper currency – China
8. First European who reached China – Marco Polo
9. First Asian city to host the Olympics – Tokyo, Japan
10. First man in space – Yuri Gagarin
11. First woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – Margaret Thatcher
12. First man to draw the map of Earth – Anaximander
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