Did You Know? The First Achievers

Did You Know?

Matthew Webb was the first person to swim across the English Channel. He achieved this feat in the year 1975.

Arati Saha of India was the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel. 

Sully Prudhomme of France was the first person to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. 

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in literature. 

Maurice Garin was the first person to win the Tour de France. 

Trygve Lie of Norway was the first Secretary General of the United Nations. 

Valentina Tereshkova of USSR was the first woman in space. She was aboard the Vostok 6. 

Wilhelm Steinitz was the world's first chess champion. 

Nelson Mandela was the first Black President of South Africa. 

Henry Kissinger was the first Jew to become the US Secretary of State. 

Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first to win the Nobel Prize for Physics. 

Harriet Quimby was the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel.