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First American President to
visit India: Dwight David Eisenhower
First
Asian to be elected president of Britain's Liberal Democratic Party
(LDP): Lord Navnit Dholakia
First
Asian to head a British university: Lord Swaraj Paul (when he was
elected Chancellor of the Wolverhampton University on May 9, 2000)
First British Prime Minister
to visit India: Harold Macmillan
First Chairman of the
University Grants Commission: S.S.Bhatnagar
First Chief Election
Commissioner of India: Sukumar Sen (21.3.1950 to 19.12.1958)
First Chief Justice of India:
Harilal J.Kania (26.1.1950-6.11.1951)
First Chief Minister of the
tri-lingual Bombay Presidency: B.G.Kher
First Chief of Air Staff: Air
Marshall Sir Thomas Elmherst (1947-1950)
First Chief of Army Staff:
Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Sinhji (1.4.1955
to 14.5.1955)
First Commander-in-Chief:
Gen.Sir Roy Bucher (1.1.1948 - 14.1.1949)
First Dalit Lok Sabha Speaker: G M C Balayogi
First Defence Minister of
Independent India: Sardar Baldev Singh
First Deputy Prime Minister
of India: Sardar Vallabhai Patel
First Director General of
ICAR: B.P.Pal
First
Eunuch to be elected as a Mayor of an Indian city: Kamla Jaan, who
elected Mayor of Katni city in Madhya Pradesh in January 2000.
First
Eunuch to get elected to a state legislature: Shabnam Mausi, won the
Sohagpur Assembly constituency
in Madhya Pradesh in the February 2000 elections.
First European to invade
India: Alexander
First Field Marshal: Gen.
S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
First fighter pilot to win
the Param Vir Chakra: Flying Officer Nirmaljeet Singh Sekhon
(posthumous) for IAF in 1971 Indo-Pak conflict.
First Foreign Secretary of
Free India: K.P.S.Menon
First Governor-General of
Independent India: Lord Mountbatten
First Indian bowler to get a
hattrick in Test cricket: Harbhajan Singh
First Indian Chief of Air
Staff: Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee (April 1, 1954).
First Indian Chief of Naval
Staff: Vice Admiral R.D.Katari (1958-1962).
First
Indian Governor-General of India: C.Rajagopalachari
First
Indian to be awarded with the 'Victoria Cross':
Khuda Dad Khan (for Gallantry in Belgium during the first World
War)
First Indian to be elected a
member of British Parliament: Dadabhoi
Naoroji
First Indian to be elected to
the US House of Representatives: Dilip Singh Saund
First Indian to go in space:
Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma. He
went in the Soyuz 7-II Spacecraft on April 3, 1984 and returned on April
11, 1984.
First Indian to hoist the
National Flag over the North Pole: Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar.
First Indian to record a song
on a gramophone disc: Sashi Mukhi of Classic Theatres, Calcutta (1902)
First Indian to swim across
the English Channel: Mihir Sen
First Indian to win an
Olympic Bronze: Khashaba Jadhav (wresting; 1952, Helsinki Olympics)
First
Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Tournament: Pullela Gopi
Chand (March 11,2001)
First Indian to win the World
Billiards Championship: Wison Jones
First Jnanpith Award Winner:
G.Sankara Kurup (1965), for his work ‘Ottakkuzhal’
in Malyalam.
First
Minister without Portfolio: N.Gopalswami Ayengar in Jawaharlal Nehru's
Cabinet. He, however, went on to become the Minister of Defence.
First Photographer in India:
Raja Deendayal
First President of India: Dr
Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
First President of the Indian
Union of Civil Liberties: Rabindranath Tagore (1930s).
First Prime Minister of
India: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964)
First Prime Minister to win a popular
entertainment award: Atal Behari Vajpayee (when he won the Screen-Videocon
"Best Lyricist" prize in the non-film music category for his
collection of poems titled "Nayi Disha" in February 2000).
First Secretary-General of
South-South Commission: Dr Manmohan Singh
First Surveyor General of
India: Sir George Everest
First Vice-President of
India: Dr S.Radhakrishnan (1952-1962)
First Winner of Param Vir
Chakra: Maj.Somnath Sharma (posthumously) in November, 1947
India's
first Test-tube baby: Harsha (born on August 6, 1986).
Indian
Johann Sebastian Bach: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
India's
longest serving Chief Minister : Jyoti Basu
Only Army Chief to be awarded
with Maha Vir Chakra twice: Late Gen. A.S.Vaidya
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