| 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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