#GK #Like & #Share #Interesting & #facts to #know 1. First Governor of Bengal – Lord Clive ( 1757 – 60) 2. Last Governor of Bengal – Lord Hastings ( 1772 – 74) 3. First Governor Genral of Bengal – Lord Hastings ( 1774 – 75) 4. First British Governor Gerneral of India – Lord Bentinck ( 1833 - 35) 5. First British Viceroy of India – Lord Canning ( 1856 – 62) 6. First President of Indian Rebublic – Dr. Rajendra Prasad 7. First Prime Minister of free India – Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 8. First Indian to win Nobel Prize – Rabindranath Tagore 9. First Muslim President of Indian National Congress –Baduddin Tyabji 10. First Muslim President of India – Dr. Zakir Hussain 11. First Governor General of free India – Lord Mountbatten 12. First and last Indian Governor General of India – C. Rajgopalachari 13. First man who introduced printing press in India – James Hicky 14. First Indian to join the I.C.S – Satyendra Nath Tagore 15. India’s first Cosmonaut – Rakesh Sharma 16. First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term – Morarji Desai 17. First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council – S. P. Sinha 18. First President of India who died while in office – Dr. Zakir Hussain 19. First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament – Charan Singh 20. First Field Marshal of India – Field Marshal S.H.F. J. Maneckshaw 21. First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics – C.V. Raman 22. First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award – Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 23. First Indian to cross English Channel – Mihir Sen 24. First Person to receive Jananpith award – G. Shanker Kurup 25. First Speaker of the Lok Sabha – G V Mavalankar 26. First Vice – President of India – Dr. S. Radhakrsihnan 27. First Home Minister Of India – Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel 28. First Person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen – Sherpa Ang Dorjee 29. First person to reach the South Pole – Col J K Bajaj 30. First Person to get Param Vir Chakra – Major Somnath Sharma 31. First Chief Election Commissioner – Sukumar Sen 32. First Person to receive Magsaysay Award – Vinoba Bhave 33. First Indian Origin person to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine – Hargobind Khurana 34. First Person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics – Amartya Sen 35. First Chief Justice of Supreme Court – Justice H. J. Kania 36. First Indian to win back to back medals in Olympics – Sushil Kumar ( 2008, 2012) 37. First Man to climb Mount Everest Twice – Nwang Gombu 38. First Man to Climb Mt. Everest 19 times – Apa Sherpa 39. First Indian Chess Grandmaster – Vishwanathan Anand ( 1988) 40. First Indian Pilot – J.R. D. Tata ( 1929)
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:00:00 +0000
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