Oldest parliament
Althing, Iceland, founded 930.
Largest parliament
China, close to 3,000 MPs member.
First woman prime minister
Mrs Sinimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka.
First woman president
Isabel Peron of Argentina.
First democratically elected woman head of state and president
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, former president of Iceland.
Current youngest king and head of state
King Mswati 3rd of Swaziland.
Oldest monarchy
Japan.
Longest serving, current head of state and monarch
The King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej (in office since June 9, 1946).
Current youngest ruling queen
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Largest meeting of heads of state and government
The United Nations 50th Anniversary celebration, held in New York, USA (from October 22-24, 1995) 128 heads of state and government attended the celebration on October 22.
First woman president of the UN General Assembly
Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi of India.
First UN Secretary-General
Mr Trygve Lie of Norway.
First man at both poles
Dr Albert P. Crary of the USA.
First person to reach the North Pole Four persons of the former USSR-Pavel Afanasyevich Geordiyenko, Pavel Kononovich Senko, Mikhail Mikhailovich somov and Mikhail Yemelyanovich Ostrekin.
First man at the South Pole
Captain Roald Amundsen of Norway.
First man to conquer Mount Everest
Mr Edmund Percival Hillary of New Zealand.
First, disabled person to scale Everest
Tom Whittaker of USA.
First man on the moon
Niel Arm Strong.
First Muslim in space
Prince Sultan Salman al-Saud of Saudi Arabia.
First journalist in space
Japanese Television reporter Tyoehiro Akiyama.
First man in space
Flight Major Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin.
First women in space
Junior Lieutenant Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union.
First man to walk in space
Lt.-Col Aleksey A. Leonov of the former Soviet Union.
Youngest Astronaut
Major (later Lt.-Gen.) Gherman Stepanovich Titov of the former Soviet Union.
Youngest woman astronaut
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union.
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