First in the World and India

First in the World and India - Historical Achievements

Explore the groundbreaking achievements of individuals and countries that made history.

First in the World

Category	Achievement	Person/Country
First Radio Telescope Satellite	HALCA	Japan
First Country to use Glass	Egypt and Mesopotamia	Egypt and Mesopotamia
First Spaceship landed on Mars	Viking-I	USA (July 1976)
World’s First Multipurpose River Valley Project	Tennessee River Valley Project	USA
First Space Shuttle Launched	Columbia	USA (April 1981)
First Rocket to go near the Sun	Helius ‘B’	USA
First Country to make written Constitution	The USA	USA
First Country to start Underground Metro Rail	Britain	Britain
First Unmanned Mission on the Moon	LUNA-9	Russia
First Spacecraft to carry man on the Moon	Apollo - 11	USA
First Country to do Artificial Satellite Experiment	Russia	Russia
Country to give Voting Right to Women	New Zealand	New Zealand
First Country to appoint Lokpal	Sweden	Sweden
First Country to impose Carbon Tax	New Zealand	New Zealand
First Country to give Rights to Wild Animals	Ecuador	Ecuador

First in the World (Male)

Category	Achievement	Person
First Asian to Head the International Cricket Council	Jagmohan Dalmiya	India
First man to climb Mount Everest	Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary	Nepal/New Zealand (29th May, 1953)
First Man to go into Space	Major Yuri Gagarin	USSR (1961)
First Man to walk into Space	Alexei Leonov	Russia
First Person to give information about Planets and their motion around the Sun	Nicolous Copernicus	Poland
First Man to compile Encyclopaedia	Aspheosis (Athens)	Greece
First Person to go on both the Poles (North and South)	Ranulph Fiennes	UK
First Man to reach North Pole	Robert Peary	USA
First Man to reach South Pole	Roald Amundsen	Norway
First Man to climb Mt Everest without Oxygen	Phu Dorji Sherpa	Nepal
First Secretary of United Nation	Trygve Lie	Norway

First in the World (Female)

Category	Achievement	Person
First Woman President of a Country	Maria Estela Peron	Argentina
First Woman in the world to cross the Strait of Gibraltar	Arti Pradhan	India
First Woman Cosmonaut in Space	Valentina Tereshkova	USSR
First woman Prime Minister	Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Sri Lanka
First Woman to have a Spacewalk	Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya	Russia
First Woman Vice-President of United States of America	Kamala Harris	USA
First Woman to climb Mount Everest	Junko Tabei	Japan
First Woman Space Tourist	Mrs. Anousheh Ansari	Irani-American
First Female Amputee to Climb Mount Everest	Arunima Sinha	India
First Woman CFO and MD of World Bank	Anshula Kant	India
First Woman Chief Economist for IMF	Gita Gopinath	India
First Astronaut to complete historic all-female Spacewalk	Christina Koch and Jessica Meir	USA
First Woman appointed as UN Civilian Police Officer	Kiran Bedi	India
First Woman to lead World Trade Organisation	Ngozi Okonjo	Nigeria

First in India (Male)

Category	Achievement	Person
First Governor-General of India	William Bentinck	1828
First and last Indian Governor-General of Free India	C Rajagopalachari	1948
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India	General KM Kariappa	1949
First Field Marshal of India	General SHFJ Manekshaw	1971
First Indian to go in Space	Rakesh Sharma	1984
First Indian to climb the Mount Everest without Oxygen	Sherpa Ang Dorje	Nepal
First Indian to become the Managing Director of World Bank	Gautam Kaji	1996
First Indian Judge in the International Court of Justice	Dr Nagendra Singh	1973
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	CV Raman	1930
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Literature	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Economics	Dr Amartya Sen	1998
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Medicines (Physiology)	Dr Har Govind Khorana	1968
First Indian to get Bharat Ratna	Dr S Radhakrishnan, C Rajgopalachari, and Dr CV Raman	1954
First Person to be Honoured with the Jnanpith Award	G Sankara Kurup	1965
First Person to get Bharat Ratna (Posthumously)	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966
First Cricketer to get Padma Bhushan	CK Naidu	1956
First Indian to get through ICS	Satyendra Nath Tagore	1869
First Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen	1958
First Judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh	1973
First Chief of Defence Staff	Bipin Rawat	2020
First Indian Pilot	JRD Tata	1932
First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen	1998

First in India (Female)

Category	Achievement	Person
First Indian Female Chairperson of Indian National Congress	Sarojini Naidu	1925
First Woman to climb the Everest	Bachendri Pal	1984
First Woman Cabinet Minister	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur	1947
First Woman Chairman of the UN General Assembly	Vijaya Laxmi Pandit	1953
First Woman President of India	Pratibha Devi Singh Patil	2007
First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha	Meira Kumar	2009
First Woman Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha	Margaret Alva	1983-85
First Woman Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi	1966
First Woman to reach Antarctica	Meher Moos	1977
First Woman IAS Officer	Anna Rajam George	1950
First Female Chief Justice	Leela Seth	1991
First Women Defence Minister	Nirmala Sitharaman	2017
First Woman to get the Bharat Ratna	Indira Gandhi	1971
First Female Nobel Prize Winner	Mother Teresa	1979
First Woman to complete Century in World Cup Cricket	Thirush Kamini	2013
First to win Silver in Olympics (Badminton)	PV Sindhu	2016