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FIRST IN THE WORLD

American President to visit India : Dwight D. Eisenhower (December 1959)

Asian Games held : New Delhi (1951)
Asian to get Phoenix Award : Sr. P.C. Sorcar (India)
Asian to win Nobel Prize for Literature : Rabindra Nath Tagor (India : 1913)
Asian Woman to cross the English Channel: Aarti Saha (India: 1959)
Bowler to claim hat-trick in successive Tests : Wasim Akram
Chairman of People’s Republic of China : Mao Tse-tung (1949)
Chinese pilgrim to visit India : Fahien (401-410)
Cricketer to have batted in all positions (1 to 11) : Wilfred Rhodes (England)
Cricketer to achieve a hat-trick in both innings of a Test Match : Thomas James
Matthews (Australia) in 1912
Englishman to receive Nobel Prize for literature : Rudyard Kipling (1907)
Ethnic-Indian to become Prime Minister to Fiji : Mahendra Chouduhary
European invader of India : Alexander (Greek : 326 BC)
European to visit China : Marco Polo (Italy: 13th C. AD)
Foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna : Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
French to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature : Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme (1901)
Governor-General of Pakistan : Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1947-48)
High Commissioner of UN Human Rights Commission : Jose Ayala Lasso (Ecuador
:1944)
Man cosmonaut in space : Yuri Gagarin (Former Russia : 1961)
Man to climb Mount Everest twice : Nawang Gombu (India)
Man to fly over both North and South Poles : Richard E. Byrd (U.S.)
Man to fly over the English Channel : Louis (France : 1909)
Man to make a solo flight around the world : Wiley Post (1933)
Man to set foot on moon : Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin Aldrin (U.S.A.: 1969)
Man to walk in space : Alexei Leonov (Russia)
Men on Mt. Everest without Oxygen : Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler (1978)
Men to cross the Sahara Desert: Dixon Denham and Huge Clapperton (England)
Muslim Invader of India : Mohammad-bin-Qasim (8th C.AD)
Person to sail round the world : Ferdinand Magllan (Portuguese : 1519-1522)
Pope to visit India: Pope Paul VI (1964)
President of Chinese Republic : Yuan Shikai (1912-1916)
President of Pakistan : Iskander Mirza (1956-1960)
President of USA : George Washington (1789-1797)
Prime Minister of India : Jawaharlal Nehru (1947 – 1964)
Prime Minister of Pakistan : Liaquat Ali Khan (1947-1951)
Secretary General of the U.N.: Trygve Lie (Norway: 1946-1953)
Speaker in Hindi at the U.N.: Atal Bihari Vajpayee (India: 1977)
Swimmer to swim Several Straits in one calendar year: Mihir Sen (India : 1966)
Test Tube Baby : Louise Joy Brown (England ) 1978
Vice –President of U.S.A.: John Adams (1789-1797)
Woman cosmonaut in space : Valentina Tereshkova (Russia 1963)
Woman Judge of International Court of Justice : Rosalyn Higgins (Britain : 1995)
Woman Judge of Supreme Court : Sandra Day O’Connor (U.S.)
Woman Pilot to circle the globe : Jerrie Mock (1964)
Woman Pilot to make solo flight: Elise Deroche (1909)

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Woman president of a country: Isabel Martinez de Peron (Argentina : 1974-76)

Woman President of U.N. General Assembly: Vijayalakshmi Pandit (India : 1953)
Woman Prime Minister of a country : Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka : 1960)
Woman to climb Mount Everest : Junko Tabei (Japan : 1975)
Woman to cross the Strait of Gibraltar : Aarti Pradhan (India)
Woman to reach North Pole : Ann Bancroft (1986)
Woman to travel South Pole alone : Liv Arnesen (Norway : 1995)
Youngest to sail around the world non-stop and alone : Kajiro Shiraishi (Japan :
1994)

FIRST IN INDIA

Actress of the talkies: Sineoda, Alam Ara (1931)

Actress in win Padma Shri Award : Nargis Dutt (1958)
Architect : Maha Govinda (5th C. BC.)
Arybhatta Medal winner : K. R. Ramanathan (1977)
Bharat Ratna Award winner : C. Rajagopalachari (1954)
British Governor-Genral of Free India : Lord Louis Mountbatten (Aug. 15,1947-June 20,
1948)
Captain of Test cricket : C.K. Nayudu (1932)
Century in Test Cricket : Lala Amarnath (1933-1934)
Chairman of Rajya Sabha : S.V. Krishnaoorthy (1952)
Chevalier Award winner : Sivaji Ganesan
Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen (1950-1958)
Chief Justic of India : Hiralal J. Kania (1950-1951)
Chief of Air Staff : Sir Thomas Elmhirst (1947-1950)
Chief of Army Staff to die in harness : B.C. Joshi (1994)
Chief of Air Staff to die in harness : S. Mukherjee (1960 in Japan)
Chief of Coast Guard : V. A. Kamath (1978-1980)
Chief of Naval Staff : R. D. Katari (1958-1962)
Commander-in-chief : K.M. Cariappa (1949-1953)
Cosmonaut : Rakesh Sharma (1984)
Cricket to have batted in all positions (1 to 11); Vinod Mankand
Dada Shaeb Phalka Award winner : Devika Rani Roerich (1969)
Dancer to perform Abroad : Uday Shankar
Deputy Prime Minister : Vallabhbhai Patel (1950)
Deputy Prime to die in harness : Vallabhbhai Patel (1950)
Elected President : S. Radhakrishnan ( 1962-1967)
Emperor of Mughal Dynasty : Babar (1526 – 1530)
English Song : My Heart is Beating from Julie (1974)
Field Marshal : S.H.F.J. Manekshaw (1973)
Film Star Chief Minister : M.G. Ramachandran (Tamil Nadu, 1877)
Finance Minister of Free India : R.K. Shanmugham Chetty, (1947)
Finance Minister to present the Budget three times in a row : Manmohan Singh
(1993, 1994, 1995)
Phoenix Award winner : Sr. P.C. Sorcar
Geometer : Baudhayana, Sulva Sutras (800 BC)
Governer-General of British India : Warren Hastings (1773-1785)

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Grammarian : Panini, Ashtadhyaayi (6th C. BC)

Helms Award winner : Kumar Digvijay Singh Babu (1952)
Home Minister : Vallabhbhai Patel (1946)
ICS Officer : Satyendranath Tagore
Indian Chief of Air Staff : S. Mukherjee (1954 – 1960)
Indian Chief of Army Staff : M. Rajendra Sinhji (April 1, 1995 – May 14, 1955)
Indian Governor : General of Free India : C. Rajagopalachari (June 1948 – Jan 1950)
Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress : Sarojini Naidu (1925)
J.C. Bose Medal Winner : V. Ramalingaswami (1977)
Jain Tirthankara : Rishabha Dev
Jnanpith Award winner : G. Sankara Kurup. Odakuzhal (1965)
Lata Mangeshkar Award winner : Naushad (1984)
Lawgiver : Manu Smriti (3100 BC)
Man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen : Phu Dorjee (1984)
Man to climb Mount Everst : Tenzng Norgay (with Edmund Hillary, 1953)
Man to make solo flight (From US to India) : Satish Soman (1994)
Man to reach South Pole : J. K. Bajaj (1989)
Man to swim across English Channel : Mihir Sen (1966)
Man to swim several Straits in one calendar year : Mihir Sen (1966)
Man to win individual Olympic Medal : K. D. Jadhav (Bronze in Wrestling – Helsinki
Olympics1952)
Managing Director of World Bank : Gautam Kaji (1995)
Member of British Parliament : Dadabhai Naoroji (1862)
Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council : Sir S.P.Sinha (1909)
Miss Universe : Sushmita Sen (1994)
Miss World : Reita Faria (1966)
Musician to get Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna : M. S.
Subbulk(1954, 1975 & 1998)
Musician to get Roman Magsaysay Award : M.S. Subbulakshmi (1974)
Missile-firing Submarine : INS Sindhushastr (July 19, 2000)
Naval pilot : Y. N. Singh (1941)
Nishan–I–Pakistan Award winner: Morarji Desai (1991)

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