Skip to content- First woman President of Philippine Aquino Corazon (1986 – 92)
- First Woman President of Serbia and Montenegro Natasa-Micic (Since Jan. 2003)
- First Woman President of UN General Assembly Vijayalakshmi Pandit (India)
- First woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khalida Zia widow of General Zia-ur- Rehman, former President of Bangladesh
- First woman Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell
- First woman Prime Minister of Europe Margaret Hilda Thatcher of UK
- First woman Prime Minister of France Edith Cresson
- First Woman Prime Minister of Guyana Mrs Janet Jagan
- First Woman Prime Minister of Israel Mrs Golda Meir
- First Woman Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark (Nov 1999)
- First woman Prime Minister of South Korea Han Myung-Sook (Mar 2006)
- First Woman Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- First Woman Prime Minister of Turkey Cillar Tansu (1993 – 1996)
- First woman Prime Minister in the Muslim world Benazir Bhutto
- First Woman Prime Minister of the world Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (1960)
- First woman Speaker of British Lower House of Parliament Betty Boothroyd (1992)
- First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air Amelia Earhart
- First woman to reach North Pole Mrs Fran Phipps (5th April 1971)
- First woman to reach South Pole Group of Six (11th Nov 1969)
- First woman to receive Nobel Prize in literature Selma Lagerlof (Sweden)
- First woman to die on Mount Everest Hannelore Schmatz
- First woman to sail around the world Bougainville
- First woman to scale Mount Everest Junko Tabei (Japan)
- First woman to scale Mount Everest without oxygen Lydia Bradey of New Zealand ( 14 Nov 1988)
- First woman to swim across English Channel Gertrude Ederle
- First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal Charlotte Cooper (in 1900)
- First woman US Secretary of State Madeleine Corbel Albright
- First women Cricket match Inaugurated in 1934 when Australia and England Greatest Russian poet Alexander Pushkin
- Greatest scientific mind of the world Ian Stein
- Greatest wing span of a bird Wandering Albatross (12 ft)
- Heaviest hailstone 1 kg hailstone fell in District Gopal Ganj (Bangladesh)
- Heaviest rainfall in one month Cherapoonje (India) 36, 614 inches in July 1861
- Highest Military Award of Belgium Military Cross
- Highest Military Award of Germany Knights Cross or Iron Cross
- Highest Military Award of India Param-Vir-Chakra
- Highest Military Award of Italy Medal for the valour
- Highest Military Award of Japan Order of the rising sun
- Highest Military Award of Russia Order of the Patriotic War
- Highest Military Award of UK Victoria Cross
- Highest Military Award of USA Medal of honour (about 1000 recipients)