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)