Monday, September 12, 2011

FIRST PERSON TO ACHIEVE


Reita Faria 1st Indian   to get Miss World in 1966



In 1994, Sushmita Sen won the Miss Universe title after winning the Miss India crown and became the first Indian woman ever to win the Miss Universe crown.


1952
Indrani Rehman
Tamil Nadu
India's debut at the Miss Universe



1959
Fleur Ezekiel
Maharashtra
India's debut in Miss World


Architecture

 Awards and Titles

Nobel Prize

Defence

 Exploration

 Film and TV

Governance

Science

Sport

 Olympics

 Chess

 Tennis

Cricket

Minorities

 Women

Places

  • City to have electricity: Kolkata, CESC started as Kilburn & Co when the company acquired the license to provide electricity to Calcutta city on January 7, 1897.
  • 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
  • City to have an e-court: Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009

Transport

  • First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16th 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, in 1901, Francis Spring, Chennai
  • First Indians to own a motor car: Jamshedji Tata 1901 and Rustom Cama, Parsi Lawyer 1901
  • First competitive event Delhi-Bombay trials 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 [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
  • Oldest surviving and running cars in India: De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
  • First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne 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 [11]
  • First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India: 1912 [12]
  • Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920's 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 indegenous 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 SSangsyong motors in 2010
  • First world-famous automotive product designed and developed in India. Tata Nano launched in 2008
  • First aeroplane in India Maharaja of Patiala 1910 [13]
  • Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on February 18, 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 it's 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 from Karachi to Jodhpur and to Delhi on Imperial Airways.
  • On February 10 1929, JRD 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: JRD 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.

Others















FIRST IN THE WORLD


Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978) is an Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica.



The first person to reach Mount Everest
Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
The first person to reach North Pole
Robert Peary
The first person to reach South Pole
Amundsen
The first religion of the world
Hinduism
The first country to print book
China
The first country to issue paper currency
China
The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services
China
The first President of the U.S.A
George Washington
The first Prime Minister of Britain
Robert Walpole
The first Governor General of the United Nations
Trigveli (Norway)
The first country to win football World cup
Uruguay
The first country to prepare a constitution
U.S.A
The first Governor General of Pakistan
Mohd. Ali Jinnah


The first country to host NAM summit
Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first European to attack India
Alexander, The Great
The first European to reach China
Marco Polo
The first person to fly aeroplane
Wright Brothers
The first person to sail round the world
Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon
U.S.A
The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space
Russia
The first country to host the modern Olympics
Greece
The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped
Hiroshima (Japan)
The first person to land on the moon
Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The first shuttle to go in space
Columbia
The first spacecraft to reach on Mars
Viking-I
The first woman Prime Minister of England
Margaret Thatcher
The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country
Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first woman Prime Minister of a country
Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
The first woman to climb Mount Everest
Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
The first woman cosmonaut of the world
Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first man to fly into space
Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut
Mohd. Azharuddin
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice
Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency
Richard Nixon
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)