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Chess

• Chess Grandmaster: Male - Viswanathan Anand, 1988.
• Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old. (Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster, at 14 years and 6 months.)

Tennis

• Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
• Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
• Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
• Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.
• Grand Slam junior title: Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship.
• Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
• Yuki Bhambri became the first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.

Cricket

• First Cricket Club in India: Calcutta now Kolkata (1792) Calcutta cricket club
• First test match played in India: India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta) (result draw) (5-8 Jan 1934)
• First Indian Captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on - against Steve Waugh's Australia in 2001-02: Sourav Ganguly
• First Cricket Stadium: Eden Gardens in Kolkata
• First Test Victory: Against England At Madras
• Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
• First Indian Captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• 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.
• First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup: Sourav Ganguly 183 runs V/S Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup Cricket.
• 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 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat).
• Indian to score two ODI double centuries and the highest individual runs in ODI is Rohit sharma, 264 against Sri Lanka in 2014.
• Hat-trick in an ODI: Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987.
• First World Cup Runners up captain: Sourav Ganguly (2003)
• World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals Under the captaincy of Kapil Dev
• 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) against Pakistan.
• Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
• 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)
• First Indian to score a T20 century: at Suresh Raina vs South Africa.
• 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.
• Fastest Fifty in a T20I: 50 runs of 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship held in South Africa, 2007)

Women

• First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal (24/1/2013)
• Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• The 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
• Woman Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
• Woman to become Railway Minister of India twice in her tenure: Mamata Banerjee
• Woman to become Railway Minister of India in two different Governments (NDA & UPA) :Mamata Banerjee
• Woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India:Arundhati Bhattacharya
• 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: Justice M. 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)
• 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
• Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
• Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• Asha Pande, first Indian woman to be the member of Legion of Honour
• Anjali Gopalan, first Tamil woman member of the royal French Legion of Honour.
• 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 Brest 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)
• First Indian Women to win Magasasay Award: Kamladevi Chattopadhyay

Places

• First partition of Indian state: Bengal
• First road which is a connected to a Wi-Fi Zone: Rajarhat (connecting Rajarhat Main Arterial Road to the airport to Sector V in the city of Kolkata with 10.5 km)
• District to achieve 100% literacy rate: Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
• City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate: Kottayam, Kerala, 1989
• District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
• District to be polio-free: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
• District to achieve tobacco free: Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008
• District to become India's 'total electrified district': Palakkad, Kerala, 2011
• City to have an e-court: Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009

Transport

• First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro as the (17Th Zonal Headquarter) (30-12-2010)
• First and the only Indian (Metro) rail under Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro
• First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853
• First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857
• First rapid transit (Metro) rail: Kolkata Metro in 1984
• First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
• First Motorcar in regular use: Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901.
• First Indians to own a motor car: Jamshedji Tata and Rustom Cama, a Parsi Lawyer in 1901.
• First competitive event: Delhi - Bombay trials in 1905 at the behest of Lord Curzon and Motor Union of Western India to test the suitability of the Automobile for Indian roads and to facilitate interaction between the fledging Automobile Industry and prospective Indian clients
• Oldest surviving and running cars in India: De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
• First woman to drive a car in India: RD Tata 1905
• First Motor Taxi: Mumbai, 1911
• First largescale import of motor cars: Relatively large contingent of motorcars imported for the Delhi Darbar held in 1911 to mark the arrival of King George V
• First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India: 1912
• Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920s and most British officers had cars
• First Assembly of motor cars: General Motors sets up the first assembly unit to assemble cars from imported parts in 1928. The National Series AB sedan is produced.
• First manufacture of motor cars: Hindustan Motors begins production of cars in 1942. Premier automobiles and Standard Motors setup. Technology stagnates as a result of economic autarky as India is isolated from the rest of the world
• First act leading to liberalization of the Auto sector: Maruti 800 launched in 1983 and the automotive industry is progressively liberalized
• First fully indigenous passenger car developed in India: Tata Indica, launched in 1998
• First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000,
• First major acquisition of a foreign company by an Indian company: Tata Motors acquires Jaguar and Land Rover in 2007. Mahindra Automotive emerges as the top bidder for SsangYong Motor Company in 2010.
• First aeroplane in India: Maharaja of Patiala, 1910
• Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on 18 February, Henri Piquet, flying a Humber biplane, carries mall from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away.
• 1927: India's first airline, Imperial Airways, extends its Empire Routes to India, connecting India with the outside world for the first time through an air network. A de Havilland Hercules flies the Cairo-Basra-Karachi-Jodhpur-Delhi route. It is also the first domestic passenger flight to be operated in India. Passengers could be for the first time fly fromKarachi to Jodhpur and to Delhi on Imperial Airways.
• On 10 February 1929, J. R. D. Tata is awarded India's first pilot licence, Pilot Licence No.1 by Federation Aeronotique International signed by Sir Victor Sasoon on behalf of the Aero Club of India and Burma.
• 1932: Urmila K Parikh becomes the first woman to get a pilot licence when she is given an a licence by the Aero Club of India and Burma.
• 1932: J. R. D. Tata launches India's first scheduled airline, Tata Airlines, by piloting the first flight himself from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad on a single-engine Puss Moth with a load of airmail.

Literature and media

• Newspaper: Hicky's Bengal Gazette started in 1780.
• Hindi Newspaper: Udant Martand on May 30, 1826; published and edited by Jugal Kishore Shukla from Calcutta.
• Hindi monthly magazine: Saraswati on January 1, 1900, started by Chintamani Ghosh in Allahabad

• Exclusive Internet magazine: Bharat Samachar

Others

• The first Indian to cross English Channel: Mihir Sen
• The first Indian Air Chief Marshal: S. Mukherjee
• First Post Office Opened in India: Kolkata (1727)
• First telegraph message: On November 5, 1850, between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Diamond Harbour, a distance of about 50 km.
• Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939.

• Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach, California
• India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer: Sonali Banerjee
• First Lady Teacher: Savitribai Phule
• First Lady Doctor: Anandibai Joshi
• First lady tennis sports: Saniya mirza
• The first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation: Shripad Vaidya13 Jun 2010 – Vaidya is the first Nagpurian to get two Limca records within a year in ... as the first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation.
• World's first hand written needle book: Madhushala
• Writer of world's first hand written needle book (Madhushala): Piyush Goel
• First Disabled Friendly Bank ATM by Union Bank of India