What was the first record in the Guinness book of records?

Answer 1

This is a difficult question to answer because the records were not put in numerical order (with the first or most important record on page 1). The founders of the Book of Records had been gathering up entries for several years, from hundreds of submissions. When the first edition was finally published in August 1955, it had nearly 200 pages, and was divided up into the following twelve sections: "The Universe", "The Natural World", "The Animal Kingdom", "The Human Being", "The Human World", "The Scientific World", "The World's Structures", "The Mechanical World", "The Business World", "Accidents and Disasters", "Human Achievements" and "Sport." Why they were divided into those segments, and why that was the order, is not clear. But based on the order of the sections, the first records, located on pp. 1-6, were those that involved the Universe (which seemed to be related to space); the "Natural World," pp. 7-26, included records related to nature, weather, plants, etc.