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                                    FIRST IN WORLD - MEN





                             First man in space                   Yuri Gagarin            USSR

                    First person of African descent in          Arnaldo Tamayo             Cuba
                                    space                            Méndez
                    First man to reach the North Pole             Robert Peary             USA

                       First man to scale Mt Everest            Edmund Hillary             New
                                                                                         Zealand

                    First man to reach the South Pole          Roald Amundsen            Norway
                     First man to circumnavigate the          Enrique, Magellan's         Malay
                                    world                             slave

                      First man to land on the moon             Neil Armstrong             USA
                       First Secretary General of the              Trygve Lie            Norway
                               United Nations




                           FIRST IN THE WORLD (WOMEN)




                          First woman in space                      Valentina             USSR

                                                                   Tereshkova
                        First woman to cross the                 Amelia Earhart            USA

                         Atlantic in a solo flight

                   First woman to scale Mt Everest                 Junko Tabei             Japan
                    First woman to win an Olympic               Charlotte Cooper         England

                                     gold

                    First woman Prime Minister in                    Sirimavo               Sri
                                  the world                       Bandaranaike            Lanka

                    First American woman in space                   Sally Ride             USA

                       First female commander of                 Peggy Whitson             USA
                       International Space Station
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