FIRSTS IN GOVERNANCE:
First President of India:Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
First Prime Minister of India:
Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected
First Vice President of India :
Dr. S. RadhakrishnanFirst Deputy Prime Minister of India:
Vallabhbhai Patel
First Prime Minister to be voted out of office:
Indira Gandhi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
First Non-Congress government:
by Janata Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977-1980)
First Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years):
P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
First Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years):
P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
First Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
First Governor-General:
Warren HastingsFirst British Governor-General:
Lord William Bentinck
First British Viceroy of India:
Lord Canning
First Governor General of Independent India:
Lord Mountbatten, 1947
First and Last Indian Governor-General of Indian Union:
C Rajagopalachari, 1948
First Chief Justice of India:
Justice Hiralal J Kania
First Indian ICS Officer:
Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
First Speaker of Lok Sabha:
Shri G.V. Mavlankar
First Finance Minister of Independent India:
Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys
Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence :
Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys on Nov 26, 1947
First Sikh Prime Minister :
Manmohan Singh
First Muslim President :
Zakir Hussain (1967-1969)
First Sikh President :
Giani Zail Singh
First President to die in Office :
Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Prime Minister of India of resigned without completing his full term:
Morarji Desai
First Prime Minister who did not face the Parliament:
Charan SinghFirst Chief Justice of Supreme Court to become President of India:
Justice M. HidaytullahFirst Sikh President :
Giani Zail Singh
First Education Minister :
Abul Kalam AzadFirst Home Minister :
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
First Chief Election Commissioner: Sukumar Sen
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FIRSTS IN DEFENCE:
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Sir Roy BucherFirst Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India:
General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
First Chief of Air Staff:
Air Marshal Sir Thomas ElmhirstFirst Indian Chief of Staff: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
First Indian Commander-in-Chief, IAF:
Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, 1954
First Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R D KatariFirst Field Marshal of India:
S. H. F. Manekshaw
First Person to receive Paramvir Chakra:: Major Somnath Sharma
First Cosmonaut:
Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
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FIRSTS IN NOBEL PRIZES:
First Nobel Prize winner: Rabindranath Tagore for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. He was also the firstAsian to get the prize.
First Nobel Prize in Physics:
C. V. Raman in 1930.
First Nobel Prize in Medicine:
Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (India born US citizen)
First Nobel Peace Prize:
Mother Teresa in 1979. (Albanian nun, Indian citizen)
First Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
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FIRSTS IN AWARDS AND TITLES:First Miss World:
Reita Faria in 1966
First Miss Universe:
Sushmita Sen in 1994
First Booker Prize:
Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things in 1997First Bharat Ratna:
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr C.V. Raman in 1954
First Foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna:
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
First Person to receive Stalin Prize:
Saifuddin Kitchlu
First Chevalier:
Sivaji GanesanFirst Person to receive Jnanpith Award:
Sri Shankar Kurup
First Dadasaheb Phalke Award:
Devika Rani in 1969
First Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian (posthumous) :
D.K. Jatar, captain of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"
First Magsaysay Award:
Vinoba BhaveFirst Winner of a major literary award in the United States:
Dhan Gopal MukerjiFirst Ford Supermodel of the World (contest):
Bipasha Basu, 1996___________________________________________________
FIRSTS IN EXPLORATION:First Person to reach the South Pole:
Col Jatinder Kumar BajajFirst Woman to scale Mount Everest:
Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
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FIRSTS IN FILM AND TV:
First Sound film:
Alam Ara, 1931First Oscar winner:
Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
First Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film:
Mother India in 1957
First National Film Award for cinema:
Shyamchi Aai in 1954
First Colorized film:
Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)
First Sponsored TV serial:
Hum Log, started in 1984, was also the first soap opera of India
First Actor to enact 10 roles:
Kamal Haasan
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FIRSTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
First Hydroelectric plant:
On the Gaganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka. Built in 1902.
First City to have electricity:
Bangalore, in 1906 (it was in fact the first city in Asia to have electricity)
First Man in space:
Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984. He was the 138th man in space world-wide.
First Woman in space:
Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19,1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
First Test-tube baby:
Durga Agarwal, born 1978
First Scientific Expedition to Antarctica:
1981
First Nuclear Reactor:
Tarapur, Maharashtra
First Genetically Modified Food Product in India :
Bt. Egg plant Hybrid (Bt. -- Bacilius Thuringiensis)
First Satellite :
Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975
First Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services :
EDUSET
First Successfully indigenous Launch Vehicle :SLV-3
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FIRSTS IN SPORTS:
First Olympic team medal:
Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating theNetherlands.
First Olympic individual medal (in British India): Norman Pritchard, 1900
First Olympic individual medal:
Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer OlympicsHelsinki.
First Person to swim across the English Channel:
Mihir Sen, 1958
First Woman to swim across the English Channel:
Arati Saha, 1959
First Formula 1 race driver: Narain Karthikeyan
First Formula 1 team: Force India F1
First A1 GP race victory:
Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai,China,2007
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FIRSTS IN CHESS:
First Chess Grandmaster:
Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18.
First FIDE World Chess Champion: Viswanathan Anand in December 2000.
First Undisputed World Chess Champion: Viswanathan Anand in September 2007.
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FIRSTS IN TENNIS:
First Tennis Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
First Tennis Grand Slam win by a woman:
Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
First Woman in the 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a tennis Grand Slam event:
Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
First Tennis Grand Slam junior title: Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won the a bronze medal the only medal that put India in the medal tally.
First Tennis Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
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FIRSTS IN CRICKET:
First Cricket tournament:
The Bombay Triangular which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936)
First Cricket test match:Against England at Lord's, June 25, 1932
First Cricket captain:
CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
First Cricketer to score a century:
Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay
First Cricketer to score a triple century: Vijay Hazare
First ODI cricket hat-trick:
Chetan Sharma in Reliance World Cup against New Zealand in 1987.
First Test cricket hat-trick:
Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001First Cricket World Cup championship win:At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, England beating West Indies.
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket:
Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI cricket:
Sachin Tendulkar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
First Cricket Twenty20 world cup winner :2007
First Cricketer to score 75 Test and ODI centuries :Sachin Tendulkar
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FIRSTS IN WOMEN:
First Woman Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi
First Woman Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
First Woman Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, 1963
First Woman Governor: Sarojini Naidu
First Woman Central Minister: Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly: Shanno Devi
First Woman Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
First Woman President: Pratibha Patil
First Woman Graduates:
Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
First Woman Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution:
Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
First Woman Honours Graduate:
Kamini Roy (1886)
First Woman Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee
First Woman Judge: Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court: Mrs. Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
First Woman Judge in Supreme Court of India: Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
First Woman Physician:
Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
First Woman Airline Pilot: Durga Banerjee
First Woman Olympic medal winner: Karnam Malleswari, 2000
First Woman Asian Games gold medal winner:Kamlijit Sandhu
First Woman IPS Officer: Kiran Bedi
First Woman Nobel Prize winner:
Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
First Woman Ambassador: Miss C. B. Muthamma
First Woman to climb Mt. Everest Twice: Santosh YadavFirst Woman President of Indian National Congress: Annie BesantFirst Woman Pilot in Indian Air Force: Harita Kaur DayalFirst Woman President of the UN General Assembly: Vijay Laxmi PanditFirst Woman Chairman of UPSC: Roze Millian BethewFirst Woman Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary BhattacharyaFirst Woman Lieutenant General: Puneeta AroraFirst Woman Air Vice Marshal: P. BandopadhyayaFirst Woman to receive Bharat Ratna: Indira GandhiFirst Woman to receive Jnanpith Award: Ashapurna Devi___________________________________________________
FIRSTS IN OTHERS:First Wax statue of a living Indian:
Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
First Exclusive internet magazine: Bharat Samachar
First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rehman
First President of the Indian National Congress:
W C Bonnerjee, 1885First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress: Badruddin Tayyabji
First Judge of International Court of Justice: Dr. Nagender Singh
First Graduate in Medicine: Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty
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