INDIA
Hydroelectric plant - Gaganachukki waterfall ,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 3, 1984. He was the 138th man in space worldwide.
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
Nuclear Reactor - CIRUS, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Satellite - Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975
Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services -EDUSET
Successfully indigenous launch vehicle - SLV-3
Miss World - Rita Faria in 1966
Miss Universe - Sushmita Sen in 1994
Booker Prize - Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children in 1981
Bharat Ratna - Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr C.V. Raman in 1954
Chevalier - Sivaji Ganesan
Dadasaheb Phalke Award-Devika Rani in 1969
Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian - D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C Dixit, captain and co-captain respectively, of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"
Magsaysay Award- Vinoba Bhave, 1958
Ford Supermodel of the World - Bipasha Basu, 1996
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. (India born US citizen)
Nobel Peace Prize- Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albania born Indian citizen)
Nobel Prize in Economics- Amartya Sen in 1998
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.
Oscar winner - Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film- Mother India in 1957
first Indian music director who got two oscar- Mr. A. R. Rahman in 2009.
National Film Award for cinema- Shyamchi Aai in 1954
President - Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
Vice-President - S. Radhakrishnan
Prime Minister -Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected
Deputy Prime Minister- Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-1950)
Prime Minister from South India -P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
Governor-General -Warren Hastings
Governor General of Independent India -Lord Mountbatten, 1947
Indian Governor-General of Indian Union -C Rajagopalachari, 1948
Chief Justice of India-H. J. Kania (1947-1951)
ICS Officer -Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
Speaker of Lok Sabha -G.V. Mavlankar (1952-1956)
Finance Minister of Independent India- R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947-1949)
WOMEN
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
Governor - Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947-1949
Speaker of the Lok Sabha- Meira Kumar
Indian National Congress President - Annie Besant
President - Pratibha Patil, 2007
IPS Officer- Kiran Bedi
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