First In India
Nobel Prize for Literature (1913) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Nobel Prize for Physics (1929) C.V. Raman
Nobel Prize for Peace (1979) Mother Teresa
Nobel Prize for Economics (1998) Amartya Sen
Special Oscar award winner (1992) Satyajit Ray
Governor-General of free India (Last also) C. Rajagopalachari
Woman Governor of the State Smt. Sarojini Naidu
Indian Chief of the Army Staff* General K.M. Cariappa
Woman Chief Minister of a State Smt. Sucheta Kripalani
Woman President of United Smt. Vijaylakshmi Pandit
Nations General Assembly (1954)
President of International Court of
Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
Woman to swim across the
English Channel Ms. Aarti Saha
Miss Universe Miss Sushmita Sen
Miss World Reita Faria
Indian to swim across the
English Channel Mihir Sen
Field Marshal S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
Indian recipient of Victoria Cross Khudadad Khan
Indian to conquer Mt. Everest Sherpa Tenzing, May 29, 1953
Indian male cosmonaut (1984) Rakesh Sharma
Indian female cosmonaut Kalpana Chawla (19 Nov., 1997)
Woman to climb Mt. Everest Miss Bachendri Pal, May 23, 1984
Woman to get Olympic Medal Karnam Malleswari
Indian to address Atal Behari Vajpayee
the UN General Assembly in
Hindi Newspaper Bengal Gazette, Jan 27, 1780
Postage Stamp issued In 1852
Telegraph line laid In 1851, Kolkata; Diamond Harbour
Railways run April 16, 1853; Bombay-Thana
Electric Train run 1925: Bombay-Kurla
Atomic Power Station Tarapore (Maharashtra)
Passenger-cum-cargo ship made in India Harshavardhan
Satellite Aryabhatta (1975)
Atomic Reactor Apsara (1956)
Climb Everest without oxygen Phu Dorjee (1987)
First film (movie) Raja Harishchandra (1913)
First film (talkie) Alam Ara (1931)
Metro Railway Kolkata Metro Railway
Test-tube baby, scientifically
documented Born on August 6, 1986 at K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai
TV Centre At Delhi
Indian to get an Oscar Bhanu Athaiya
Woman pilot in IAF Ms Harita Kaur Deol
Cellular Phone Kolkata, August 1, 1995
Women president of
Indian National Congress Smt. Annie Besant
President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee (1885)
Indian who passed in I.C.S. Examination Satendra Nath Tagore
Woman chief justice of High Court Lila Saith (Himachal Pradesh)
Woman Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyyar
Rocket Rohini (1967)
