First in the World

Facts on the First ones in the World are not just interesting but also are commonly asked in the GK section of exams. Students should know the important ones so that they maximize their chances of scoring in GK. Read our list of First of the world to know all about who tops where.

The list of First in the World:

Sr.No.	First	Person/ Country	Year/ Date
1.	To reach Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tenzing	May 29, 1953
2.	To reach North Pole	Robert Peary	April 6, 1909
3.	To reach South Pole	Amundsen	December 14, 1911
4.	Religion of the world	Hinduism	5500 BCE but certainly by c. 2300 BCE
5.	Country to print book	China	Between 618 and 907 AD
6.	Country to issue paper currency	China	806 AD
7.	Country to commence competitive examination in civil services	China	Between 7th to 10th century
8.	President of U.S.A	George Washington	April 30, 1789
9.	Prime Minister of Britain	Robert Walpole	1721
10.	Governor-General of the United Nations	Trygve Lie (Norway)	2 February 1946
11.	Country to win Football World Cup	Uruguay	July 30, 1930
12.	Country to prepare Constitution	U.S.A.	June 21, 1788

13.	Governor-General of Pakistan	Mohd. Ali Jinnah	August 15, 1947
14.	Country to host NAM summit	Belgrade (Yugoslavia)	September 1-6, 1961
15.	European to attack India	Alexander The Great	326 BC
16.	European to reach China	Marco Pole	1275
17.	European to fly an aeroplane	Wright Brothers	December 17, 1903
18.	Person to sail around the world	Magellan	1519
19.	Country to send a man to moon	U.S.A.	July 20, 1969
20.	Country to launch artificial satellite in space	Russia	October 4, 1957
21.	Country to host the Modern Olympics	Greece	1896
22.	City in which atom bomb was dropped	Hiroshima (Japan)	August 6, 1945
23.	Person to land on the moon	Neil Armstong, followed by Edwin E. Aldrin	1969
24.	Shuttle to go to space	Columbia	January 16, 2003
25.	Spacecraft to reach Mars	Viking-1	June 19, 1976

26.	Woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher	4 May 1979
27.	Muslim Prime Minister of a country	Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)	2 December 1988
28.	Woman to climb Mount Everest	Mrs. Junko-Tabei (Japan)	16 May, 1975
29.	Woman cosmonaut of the world	Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)	June 16, 1963
30.	Women Prime Minister of a country	Mrs. S. Banda Maike (Sri Lanka)	1960
31.	Women President of UN General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	15 September 1953(62nd Session)
32.	Man to fly into space	Yuri Gagarin (Russia)	April 12, 1961,
33.	Batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut	Mohd. Azharuddin	1984–85 series
34.	Man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu	1965
35.	U.S President to resign Presidency	Richard Nixon	9 August 1974
36.	Country to issue stamps	Britain	6 May 1840
37.	Climate-neutral country	Maldives	2020

38.	Country to introduce internet voting	Estonia	2001
39.	Country to ban plastic bag	Bangladesh	2002
40.	Country to deploy 4G in Asia	India	10 April 2012
41.	Country to ban human cloning	Britain	2001
42.	Human to walk in space	Alexei Leonov	1965
43.	Atom Bomb	Little Boy (dropped over Hiroshima)	1945
44.	Manned space vehicle	Vostok 1, USSR	1961
45.	Person to cross Antarctic Circle	James Cook	1773
46.	Woman to set foot on North	Ann Bancroft, USA	1986
47.	Blind man to scale Mt. Everest	Erik Weihenmayer, USA	May 25, 2001
48.	Residents of International Space station	Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)	2 November 2000
49.	Woman to fly solo around the world	Jerrie Fredritz Mock	1964
50.	Woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal	Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles	1900
51.	Woman to win a Grand Slam	Maureen Catherine	1953
52.	Woman to Command a Space Mission Colonel	Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)	July 23, 1999
53.	Woman President of a country	Maria Estela Peron	1974
54.	Satallite in space	Sputnik I	October 4, 1957