First in India: ********* 1. British Governor General of Bengal : Warren Hastings 2. Governor General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten 3. Commander-in-chief of Free India: General Roy Bucher 4. Cosmonaut: Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma 5. Emperor of Mughal Dynasty in India: Babar 6. Field Marshal: S. H. F. J. Manekshaw 7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union: C. Rajagopalachari 8. Indian I.C.S. Officer: Satyendra Nath Tagore 9. Indian Member of Viceroys Executive Council: Sri S. P. Sinha 10. Indian to swim across English Channel: Mihir Sen 11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel: Miss Arati Saha 12. Man to climb Mount Everest: Tenzing Norgay 13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen: Phu Dorjee 14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice: Nwang Gombu 15. Nobel Prize winner: Rabindra Nath Tagore 16. President of Indian National Congress: W. C. Banerjee 17. President of Indian Republic: Dr. Rajendra Prasad 18. Talkie Film: Alam Ara (1931) 19. Test Tube Baby (Documented): Indira 20. Viceroy of India: Lord Canning 21. Woman Minister of Indian Union: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 22. Woman Chief Minister of State: Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani 23. Woman Governor: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 24. Woman President of Indian National Congress: Dr. Annie Besant 25. Woman Prime Minister: Mrs Indira Gandhi 26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly: Mrs. Shanno Devi 27. Prime Minister of India: Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 28. Muslim President of Indian Union: Dr. Zakir Hussain 29. Speaker of Lok Sabha: G. V. Mavlankar 30. Woman to climb mount Everest: Bachhendri Pal 31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court: Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi 32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court: Smt. Leela Seth 33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen): Kalpana Chawla 34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics: Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) 35. The First Indian World Chess Champion: Vishwanathan Anand 36. Indias first paperless Newspaper: The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) 37. Indias First woman Merchant Navy Officer: Sonali Banerjee 38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha: G. M. C. Balyogi 39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness: Krishna Kant 40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century: Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England) 41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya 42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor: Ms. Kiran Bedi 43. The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident: Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) 44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India: K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) 45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament: Sania Mirza (2003) 46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship: Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) 47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD: Mrs. Ranjana Kumar 48. The highest individual test scorer of India: Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the first test in Multan against Pakistan) 49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times: Rahul Dravid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004) 50. The first Odisha woman to top I.A.S.: Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) 51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India: Dr. Manmohan Singh 52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State: Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttarakhand) 53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief: MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) 54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army: Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) 55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming: Bula Chaudhury 56. The first woman to become Indian Air Forces first woman Air Marshal: Padma Bandhopadhyay 57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years: Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) 58. Indias first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title: Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) 59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon: Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) 60. The first wonder child of Odisha only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km: Budhia (May 2006) 61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police): Letika Saran 62. The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole: Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) 63. The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship: Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) 64. The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title: Preeti Desai (2006) 65. The first woman President of the Republic of India: Pratibha Patil : Career Amplifier
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