The Book of World Records

Reference Records

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MRB-2026-006626 First Black Actor to Win the Academy Award for Best Actor Sidney Poitier · Bahamas · 13 April 1964 MRB-2026-007204 First Man-Made Structure Taller than 2,000 ft KVLY-TV Mast · United States · 13 August 1963 MRB-2026-007194 World's First Human Lung Transplant University of Mississippi Medical Center · United States · 11 June 1963 MRB-2026-005637 Most Powerful Nuclear Weapon Ever Detonated Tsar Bomba (Soviet Union) · Russia · 30 October 1961 MRB-2026-005638 First Human to Travel into Space Yuri Gagarin · Russia · 12 April 1961 MRB-2026-005927 World's First Elected Female Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike · Sri Lanka · 21 July 1960 MRB-2026-005902 Strongest Earthquake Ever Recorded 1960 Valdivia earthquake · Chile · 22 May 1960 MRB-2026-007192 Longest Suspension Bridge Between Anchorages in the Western Hemisphere Mackinac Bridge · United States · 1 November 1957 MRB-2026-005963 First Sub-Saharan African Nation to Gain Independence Institutional / General Record · Ghana · 6 March 1957 MRB-2026-006276 World's Largest Operational Space Launch Facility Institutional / General Record · Kazakhstan · 2 June 1955 MRB-2026-005772 First Confirmed Summit of Mount Everest Sir Edmund Hillary · New Zealand · 29 May 1953 MRB-2026-005630 Largest Attendance at a FIFA World Cup Match Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro · Brazil · 16 July 1950 MRB-2026-007201 Site of the World's First Nuclear Explosion Trinity Site · United States · 16 July 1945 MRB-2026-007211 Fastest Temperature Rise Ever Recorded Town of Spearfish · United States · 22 January 1943 MRB-2026-007216 One of the World's Largest Office Buildings The Pentagon · United States · 15 January 1943 MRB-2026-006899 One of the World's Largest and Most Accessible Shipwreck Dive Sites Institutional / General Record · Vanuatu · 26 October 1942 MRB-2026-006906 Site of the Battle of Guadalcanal, a Turning Point of World War II Institutional / General Record · Solomon Islands · 7 August 1942 MRB-2026-007206 World's First Parking Meter Park-O-Meter No. 1 · United States · 16 July 1935 MRB-2026-007199 Fastest Wind Gust Ever Observed by Humans Mount Washington Observatory · United States · 12 April 1934 MRB-2026-007234 World's Tallest Steel Arch Bridge Sydney Harbour Bridge · Australia · 19 March 1932 MRB-2026-006317 First Country to Host and Win the FIFA World Cup Institutional / General Record · Uruguay · 30 July 1930 MRB-2026-007261 Largest Railway Station in Europe by Floor Area Leipzig Hauptbahnhof · Germany · 4 December 1915 MRB-2026-005797 First Explorers to Reach the South Pole Roald Amundsen expedition · Norway · 14 December 1911 MRB-2026-007203 First Successful Powered Airplane Flight Wright Brothers National Memorial · United States · 17 December 1903

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