Miscellaneous (SSC, Railway, Police & All State exam)Chapter Unit
First in the World
| Category | First Person/Entity/Place | Description |
|---|---|---|
| First Man to Reach the South Pole | Roald Amundsen | Reached on December 14, 1911. |
| First Man to Reach the North Pole | Robert Peary | Reached on April 6, 1909. |
| First Country to Launch a Satellite | Soviet Union | Launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. |
| First Animal in Space | Laika (Dog) | Sent aboard Sputnik 2 by the Soviet Union in 1957. |
| First Man in Space | Yuri Gagarin | Orbited Earth aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. |
| First Woman in Space | Valentina Tereshkova | Flew aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963. |
| First Artificial Satellite | Sputnik 1 | Launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. |
| First Country to Land on the Moon | United States | Apollo 11 mission landed on July 20, 1969. |
| First Person on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | Stepped onto the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. |
| First Woman Prime Minister | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Elected PM of Sri Lanka in 1960. |
| First Woman President | Isabel Perón | President of Argentina (1974–1976). |
| First Secretary-General of the United Nations | Trygve Lie | Served from 1946 to 1952. |
| First Human Heart Transplant | Dr. Christiaan Barnard | Performed on December 3, 1967, in South Africa. |
| First Man to Climb Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay | Reached the summit on May 29, 1953. |
| First Woman to Climb Mount Everest | Junko Tabei | Reached the summit on May 16, 1975. |
| First Country to Use Paper Currency | China | Introduced during the Tang Dynasty (618–907). |
| First Country to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage | Netherlands | Legalized on April 1, 2001. |
| First Country to Grant Women the Right to Vote | New Zealand | Granted in 1893. |
| First Man to Fly an Airplane | Orville Wright | Flew the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903. |
| First Country to Abolish Slavery | Haiti | Abolished slavery in 1804. |
| Category | First Person/Entity/Place | Description |
|---|---|---|
| First Country to Launch a Nuclear Weapon | United States | Dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. |
| First Nuclear Power Plant | Obninsk, Russia | Started operation in 1954. |
| First Country to Introduce GST | France | Introduced in 1954. |
| First Country to Host the Olympic Games | Greece | Hosted the first modern Olympics in Athens, 1896. |
| First Man to Break the Sound Barrier | Chuck Yeager | Achieved this in 1947 aboard the Bell X-1 aircraft. |
| First Country to Host the FIFA World Cup | Uruguay | Hosted the inaugural tournament in 1930. |
| First Man to Win a Nobel Prize | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for X-rays. |
| First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize | Marie Curie | Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. |
| First Person to Win Two Nobel Prizes | Marie Curie | Won in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911). |
| First Country to Introduce a Written Constitution | United States | Adopted its Constitution in 1787. |
| First Country to Conduct DNA Fingerprinting | United Kingdom | Developed by Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1984. |
| First Spacecraft to Land on Mars | Viking 1 | Landed on July 20, 1976. |
| First Spacecraft to Orbit Another Planet | Mariner 9 | Orbited Mars in 1971. |
| First Man to Walk in Space | Alexei Leonov | Conducted a spacewalk on March 18, 1965. |
| First Woman to Walk in Space | Svetlana Savitskaya | Conducted a spacewalk on July 25, 1984. |
| First Country to Introduce Printing Press | Germany | Introduced by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. |
| First Country to Use Steam Engine for Transportation | United Kingdom | Developed the first steam locomotive in 1804. |
| First Man to Cross the Atlantic by Airplane | Charles Lindbergh | Flew solo on May 20–21, 1927. |
| First Country to Achieve Independence in Africa | Liberia | Gained independence in 1847. |
| First Person to Circumnavigate the Globe | Ferdinand Magellan (Expedition) | Completed by his crew after his death in 1522. |
| Category | First Person/Entity/Place | Description |
|---|---|---|
| First Country to Launch an Artificial Satellite | Soviet Union | Sputnik 1, launched in 1957. |
| First Country to Abolish Capital Punishment | Venezuela | Abolished in 1863. |
| First Country to Introduce Paper Currency | China | Introduced during the Tang Dynasty (618–907). |
| First Country to Industrialize | United Kingdom | Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century. |
| First Human to Cross Antarctica on Foot | Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary | Crossed in 1958. |
| First Man to Reach the Mariana Trench | Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh | Descended in the Trieste bathyscaphe in 1960. |
| First Man to Win an Olympic Gold Medal | James Connolly | Won in triple jump at Athens Olympics in 1896. |
| First Modern Novel | Don Quixote | Written by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605. |
| First City to Have Underground Railway | London | The London Underground started in 1863. |
| First Country to Use Electronic Voting Machines | United States | Introduced in 1964. |
| First Human to Travel Faster Than the Speed of Sound | Chuck Yeager | Achieved in 1947 aboard the Bell X-1 aircraft. |
| First Country to Legalize Euthanasia | Netherlands | Legalized in 2002. |
| First Country to Host Winter Olympics | France | Hosted in Chamonix in 1924. |
| First Country to Use Fingerprinting for Identification | Argentina | Implemented in 1892. |
| First Animal to Receive a Ph.D. | Alex the Parrot | Awarded an honorary Ph.D. for cognition studies. |
| First Person to Invent a Telescope | Hans Lippershey | Credited with the invention in 1608. |
| First Country to Send a Spacecraft to Venus | Soviet Union | Sent Venera 3, which crash-landed in 1966. |
| First Country to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions | Bhutan | Achieved this status in 2018. |
| First Recorded Use of a Wheel | Mesopotamia | Used for pottery and transport around 3500 BCE. |
| First Civilization to Develop Writing | Sumerians | Developed cuneiform script around 3100 BCE. |
| First Successful Cloning of an Animal | Dolly the Sheep | Cloned in 1996 in Scotland. |