GK - List of firsts in India ( 6 )
Cricket
First Test Victory : Against England At MadrasCricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
Test match: Against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932
Captain in Tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.
ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar.
Cricketer to score a century in a Test match : Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds.
Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match : Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match : Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
Indian to score an ODI century : Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010.
Hat-trick in an ODI: Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987.
World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals.
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests : Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs : Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Winner of the first T20 World Cup: India (in 2007).
Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined : Sachin Tendulkar
First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings : Anil Kumble (against Pakistan)
First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket : Sachin Tendulkar
First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket : Mithali Raj [214* against New Zealand at Wellington, 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat)
Six sixes in an Over : Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England.
First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground: India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
Women
Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883The first woman Honours Graduate :Kamini Roy, 1886
Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
The first woman Director General of Police :Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
The first woman to receive Nobel Prize :Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Women Railway Minister of India :Mamata Banerjee
Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005
Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford.
Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)
Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
The first woman Air Vice Marshal :P. Bandopadhyaya
Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
High Court Judge : Anna Chandy
Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953
Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
Women Railway Minister :Mamata Banerjee.
The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias) : Muthamma Chonira.
The first woman to cross English Channel :Aarti Saha
Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967
Chief Minister of West Bengal : Mamata Banerjee
Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
Women Governor of West Bengal: Padmaja Naidu, 1956–1967.
Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937
Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal, 1984
Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
Grand Slam junior title : Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
State Finance Minister : Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab : October, 2010
Paris Cycling Event : Divya Tate(44) : August, 2011
The first Indian woman pilot : Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
To Cross Gobi Desert : Sucheta Kadethankar(33) :2011
First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha
first woman IAS officer:Anna Rajan George(b1927)kerela qualified in 1950 sub divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951
First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October, 2007)
