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This is a list of firsts in India.
Awards and Titles
- Nobel Prize winner: Rabindranath Tagore for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. He was also the first Asian to get the prize.
- Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman in 1930.
- Nobel Prize in Medicine: Har Gobind Khorana in 1968.
- Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa in 1979. (However, Mother Teresa was an Albanian nun, settled in India.)
- Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
- Miss World: Reita Faria in 1966
- Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen in 1994
- Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things in 1997
- Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr C.V. Raman in 1954
- Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani in 1969
- Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian (posthumous) : D.K. Jatar, captain of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"
- Magsaysay Award: Vinoba Bhave
Exploration
- Person to reach the South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
- Woman to scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
Film and TV
- Sound film: Alam Ara, 1931
- Oscar winner: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
- Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film: Mother India in 1957
- National Film Award for cinema: Shyaamchi Aai in 1950
- Colorized film: Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)
- Sponsored TV serial: Hum Log, started in 1984, was also the first soap opera of India
- Actor to enact 10 roles: Kamal Haasan
- Winner of Celebrity Big Brother TV show: Shilpa Shetty, 2006
Governance
- President: Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
- Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected
- Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
- Non-Congress government: by Janata Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977-1980)
- Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
- Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
- Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
Science
- Hydroelectric plant: On the Gaganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka. Built in 1902.
- City to have electricity: Bangalore, in 1906 (it was in fact the first city in Asia to have electricity)
- Man in space: Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984. He was the 138th man in space world-wide.
- Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19, 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
- Test-tube baby: Durga Agarwal, born 1978
Sport
- Olympic team medal: Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands.
- Olympic individual medal (in British India): Norman Pritchard, 1900
- Olympic individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki.
- Person to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958
- Woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha, 1959
- Formula 1 race driver: Narain Karthikeyan
Tennis
- Tennis Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
- Tennis Grand Slam win by a woman: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
- Tennis Grand Slam junior title: Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won the a bronze medal the only medal that put India in the medal tally.
- Tennis Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
Cricket
- Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936)
- Cricket test match: Against England at Lord's, June 25, 1932
- Cricket captain: CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
- Cricketer to score a century: Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay
- Cricketer to score a triple century: Vijay Hazare
- Test cricket hat-trick: Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001
- Cricket World Cup championship win: At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, England beating West Indies.
- Batsman to complete 10,000 runs: Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
'''Prime Ministers of India'''
Jawaharlal Nehru Aug. 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964
Gulzari Lal Nanda May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964 (Interim) January 11 - 24, 1966(Interim)
Lal Bahadur Shastri June 9, 1964 - January 11, 1966
Indira Gandhi Jan. 24, 1966 to March 24, 1977 Jan. 14, 1980 to Oct. 31,1984
Morarji Desai March 24, 1977 to July 28, 1979
Charan Singh July 28, 1979 - Jan. 14, 1980
Rajiv Gandhi Oct. 31,1984 to Dec. 1,1989 V. P. Singh Dec. 2,1989 - Nov. 10, 1990
Chandra Shekhar Nov. 10,1990 - June 21, 1991
P. V. Narasimha Rao June 21, 1991 to May 10, 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee May 16 to June 1, 1996 H. D. Deve Gowda June 1, 1996 to April 21, 1997
I. K. Gujral April 21, 1997 - Nov. 28. 1997.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee March 19, 1998 - May 22, 2004
Dr. Manmohan Singh May 22, 2004 - till date
Others
- Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
- Exclusive internet magazine: Bharat Samachar