First in the World segment of General Knowledge is quite useful for competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, Bank Exams and other Central and all State level Entrance Exams.
- First human to walk in space ……..Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)
- The first country to send man to the moon ……U.S.A.
- The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space …….Russia
- The first country to host the modern Olympics …..Greece
- First human to walk on the Moon …… Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)
- The first Governor General of Pakistan ……Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- The first country to host NAM summit……..Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
- The first person to sail round the world…. Magellan
- The first woman to climb Mount Everest……Junko Taibei
- The first Foreign Invader to India……Alexander the Great
- The first Chinese Traveler to India…..Fahein
- The first U.S. President to resign Presidency……..Richard Nixon
- The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice…….Nawang Gombu
- The first batsman to score three test centuries in three successive tests on debut Mohd…….Azharuddin
- The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly……Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- The first person to fly aeroplane……….Wright Brothers
- The first European to reach China……………Marco Polo
- The first European to attack India……..Alexander, The Great
- The first woman Prime Minister of a country…………Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike
- The first woman President of a country……….Maria Estela Peron
- The first woman to Command a Space Mission……..Colonel Eileen Collins
- First talkie movie in the world…….. “The Jazz Singer” (1927)
- The first residents of International Space station……….Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko, Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
- The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest…….Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001)
- The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped……..Hiroshima (Japan)
- First woman to fly solo across the English Channel………Hariiet Quimby
- First woman to fly solo around the world…………Jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)
- First person to conquer the Everest twice…………….Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)
- First people to reach the North Pole………..Lt Col. Joseph, O. Fletcher, Lt. William P. Benedict (1952)
- The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess…….Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)
- The first person to reach South Pole…….Amundsen
- The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services……..China
- The first woman cosmonaut of the world……..Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)
- The first Muslim Women Prime Minister of a country…….Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
- The first woman Prime Minister of England……..Margaret Thatcher
- The first country to issue paper currency………China
- The first President of the U.S.A. …….George Washington
- The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize……Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
- China’s first man in space……….Yang Liwei
- First manned space…………………..vehicle Vostok 1,USSR (1961)
- The first Prime Minister of Britain ………Robert Walpole
- The first religion of the world…….Hinduism
- The first country to print book…….China
- The first Governor General of the United Nations…….Trigveli (Norway)
- The first country to prepare a constitution………..U.S.A.
- First Asian city to host Olympics……Tokyo, Japan (1964)
- First woman to win a Grand Slam………Maureen Catherine (195 3)
- First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal………Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)
- First person to cross Antarctic Circle……James Cook (1773)
- First Atom Bomb……..Little Boy
- First professional woman bullfighter …….Patricia Mccormick (1952)