THE FIRST AND THE LASTS

THE FIRST AND THE LASTS

First British Governor  General of the new Dominion of India- : Lord Mountbatten

First and the Last Indian Governor - General of Free India: C. Rajagopalachari

Last Governor-General of India who also became the first Viceroyof India: Lord Canning

Last Viceroy of India : Lord Mountbatten

First British  Governor-General in India: Warren Hastings

First Commander-in-Chief of free India : General Cariappa

Tenth and the last Guru of the Sikhs: Guru Gobind Singh

First Chinese pilgrim to visit India: Fa-Hein

First European to visit China: Marco Polo

First European invader on Indian soil: Alexander the Great

First U.S.A. President to visit India: D. Eisenhover

First Russian Prime Minister to visit India: V.I.Bulganin

First British Prime Minister to visit India: Harold Macmillan

First President of the USA : George Washington

First President of the Chinese Republic: Sun Yat-Sen (1912)

First Prime Minister of Great Britain: Robert Walpole

First Women Prime Minister (twice) (Sri Lanka) of a Country in the World: Mrs. S. Bandaranaike

First India’s Spaceman : Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma

First Indian to scale Mount Everest: Phu Dorjee

First President of Indian Republic: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

First Woman Prime Minister of India: Mrs. Indira Gandhi

First Indian to win Nobel Prize: Dr. Rabindranath Tagore

First President of Indian National Congress: W.C.Bonerjee

First person to conquer Mount Everest: Serpa Tenzing and Hillary

First man who climbed Mount Everest (twice): Nawang Gombu

First woman who climbed Mount Everest: Mrs. Junko Tabei, Japan

First Indian to swim across the English Channel : (Men) Mihir Sen,

First Indian to swim across the English Channel (Women) Mrs.Arati Gupta

First woman to sail non-stop around the world, alone: Kay Cottee

First Woman to reach the North Pole: Ann Bancroff

First Indian woman to scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal

First person to reach the South Pole: Amundsen

First woman to walk in space (Russia): Svetlana Savitskaya space

First person in the world : Neil A. Armstrong and

to land on the moon Edwin E. Aldrin Jr of USA

First woman cosmanaut of world : Valentina Tereskhova, the Russian

First country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon: Russia

First Chief Justice of a High Court: Justice H.L.Kania (Men),

First Chief Justice of a High Court: Ms. Leila Seth (Women)

First Judge of Supreme Court: Camelia Sorabji

First Magistrate : Mrs. Omana Kunjamma

First Indian to become President of International Court of Justice: Dr. Nagendra Singh

First Bar-at-Law : J.M.Tagore

First Woman Foreign Secretary: Chokila Iyer

First Women Grandmaster (India) :Subburaman: Ms. Vijayalakshmi

First Indian Woman to win an Olympic Medal: Karnam Malleswari

First Asian to claim Chess' World Title: Viswanathan Anand

First Indian Woman Air-Commodre: Ms.P.Bandhobathyai

First Indian girl to win the British Junior Squash title: Joshna Chinappa (17 yrs)

First Indian Muslim Woman Mayor : Aneesha Mirza(Ahmedabad)

First Test Tube Baby : Louise Joy Brown

First Place where atom bomb was dropped: Hiroshima

First man to reach North Pole: Robert Peary

First man to climb Mount Everest: Sherpa Sungau (Nepal)

First man to walk in space : Alexi Leonov (USSR)

First Governor General of Pakistan: Mohammed Ali Jinnah

First oldest man to scale Mount Everest: Mario Curris

First Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Roy Bucher

First Emperor of Mughal Dynasty: Babar

First Field Marshal of India: S.H.F.J.Manekshaw

First Indian ICS Officer : Satyendra nath Tagore

First Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council: Sir S.P. Sinha

First man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen: Phu Dorjee

First Talkie Film : Alam Ara (1931)

First Test Tube Baby : Indira

First Woman Minister of Indian Union: Rajkumar Amrit Kaur

First Woman Chief Minister of State: Sucheta Kriplani

First Woman Governor : Sarojini Naidu

First Woman President of Indian National Congress: Dr. Annie Besant

First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly: Shanno Devi

First Prime Minister of India: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

First Muslim President of Indian Union: Dr. Zakir Hussain

First Speaker of Lok Sabha: G.V. Mavlankar

First Woman Judge in Supreme Court: Fathima Beevi

First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court: Leela Seth

First Indian Woman to go in space: Kalpana Chawla

First Indian Woman Merchant Navy Officer: Sonali Banerjee