EXPLORATION

*Person to Reach the South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar

Bajaj
*Man to scale Mt. Everest(World):Tenjing Norgue May
29 ,1953
*Woman to scale Mt.Everest:Bachendri Paul on May
23,1984.She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the
peak.
*Man to climb Mt.Everest without Oxygen: Phu Dorjee
Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji) was a Sherpa and the first Indian to
summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. He did so on May
5, 1984 on a solo ascent from the South East Ridge. Dorjee died in 1987
on the Kanchanjunga Expedition of the Assam Rifles.

Mt. Everest
Mt. Everest, the highest mountain above sea-level on Earth is located on
the China-Nepal border in the Himalayan mountain range. It is named
after Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India. It is known as
Chomolungma in Tibet and Sagarmatha in Nepal. The height of Mt.
Everest was recently established to be 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1Ú2 in).

Feature Name Date

Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and
First persons 29 May 1953
Tenzing Norgay (Nepali-Indian)
First woman Junko Tabei (Japan) 16 May 1975
First person to Nawang Gombu (India) 1963 and 1965
 Feature Name Date
summit twice
First woman to
Santosh Yadav (India) 1992 and 1993
summit twice
Yuichiro Muira (80 years 224 days)
Oldest person 23 May 2013
(Japan)
Tamae Watanbe (73 years 180
Oldest woman 19 May 2012
days) (Japan)
Youngest Jordan Romera (13 years 10
19 May 2012
person months 10 days) (USA)
Youngest Malavath Purna (13 years 11 mths)
25 May 2014
female (india)
First Indian
Bachendri Pal 23 May 1984
woman
First twins Tashi and Nungshi Malik(Haryana) 19 May 2013
First Indian
Phu Dorjee 09 May 1984
without oxygen
First female
Arunima Sinha 21 May 2013
amputee
Kami Rita Sherpa (26 times)
07 May 2021
Pasang Dawa Sherpa (26 times)
Most number of 14 May 2023
Apa Sherpa (21 times)
times 11 May 2011
24 May 2013
Phurba Tashi Sherpa (21 times)
First blind
Erik Weihenmayer 25 May 2001
person

FILM AND TV
*Sound Film:Alam Ara, 1931
*Oscar winner:Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design
for Gandhi film in 1983
*Oscar nomination for best foreign language Film :
Mother India in 1957.
Science
1.Man in space: Rakesh Sharma, On April 03,1984.

2.Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla Abroad space shuttle Columbia

Flight, on Nov19, 1997. Dead : 1 Feb 2003.

3. First satellite: Aryabhatta, launch on 19 April,1975.

4.First successfully indigenous launch vehicle : SLV-3

The Satellite Launch Vehicle or SLV was a small-lift launch vehicle project started in the early
1970s by the Indian Space Research Organisation to develop the technology needed to launch
satellites. SLV was intended to reach a height of 400 kilometres (250 mi) and carry a payload
of 40 kg (88 lb).The first experimental flight of SLV-3, in 10 August 1979 in Sriharikota,was a
failure.The first successful launch took place on 18 July 1980 and final launch of the SLV took
place on 17 April 1983.

5.Nuclear Reactor: Apsara

6.Nuclear Power Plant:Tarapur,Maharashtra

7.Test tube baby: Harsha Chawda , 6 Aug ,1986. Mumbai.

8.First Genetically modified food product in India: Bt. Brinjal Hybrid.

First genetically modified plant commercially released in India is Bt cotton. This has been
developed by MAHYCO (Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company) in collaboration with American
company, Monsanto.
The world’s first genetically modified (GM) rubber plant was planted on the outskirts of
Guwahati, Assam.

Developed at the Kerala-based Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), the sapling was
planted by Rubber Board chairman and executive director KN Raghavan at the board’s farm in
Sarutari near Guwahati.

9.First graduate in medicine: Surjo Kumar Chakroborty,

Surjo Kumar Chakraborty MRCS was the first Indian to pass the
examination of the Indian Medical Service in 1855 and subsequently
became the Professor of Materia Medica at Calcutta Medical College in
the latter half of the nineteenth century.

10.First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of

programmes (DDP) of the World Health Organization (WHO): Dr.
Soumya Swaminathan

11.First satellite earth station for domestic communications:

Secunderabad

12.First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics: C.V Raman

Sports
1.Olympic team medal: 1928, Summer Olympics (Amsterdam) Gold
medal in hockey ( Beating Netherlands).

2.Person to swim across English Channel :Mihir Sen,1958.

3.Woman to swim across English Channel :Arati Saha,1959.

4.Chess Grandmaster: Viswanathan Anand in 1988, At the age of 18.

5.First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian Games gold medal
(2018,Jakarta,50KG) and commonwealth gold (2014,glassgow,48
KG.2018 GoldCoast,50 KG.2022 Birmingham,53 KG.) :Vinesh
Phogat,Charkhi Dadri District,Haryana.
*She is the only Indian woman wrestler to win multiple medals at
the World Wrestling Championships. Phogat became the first Indian
athlete to be nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards in 2019.
6.First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian wrestling championship
gold medal:Navjot Kaur,Punjab.(65 KG freestyle category,2018
,Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
*2022 Asian Wrestling Championship held in Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia.
First- Jalandhar,India.1979.
7.First Indian woman badminton player to win an Asian Games (2018
Jakarta-Palembang) Bronze medal: Saina Nehwal,Hisar,Haryana.
8.First Indian woman badminton player to win an Asian Games (2018
Jakarta-Palembang) Silver medal: PV Sindhu,Hyderabad,Now in
Telangana.
*2022,Commonwealth games,Birmingham,Gold.(Womens singles).
2016,Olympic,Rio de Janeiro,Silver,(Womens singles).
2020/21, Olympic,Tokyo,Bronze,(Womens singles).
9.First Indian woman to win a medal at Asian Games: Santhi
Soundarajan.
10.First person to win international bronze medal in skiing: Aanchal
Thakur.
11.First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal: P. V. Sindhu in
Badminton.
12.First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics: Nora
Margaret Polley (Tennis, Womens Singles and Mixed Doubles ), 1924
,Paris,Summer Olympics.
13.First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling: Sakshi Malik Bronze in
the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Cricket
Men
Cricket test match: Against England at Lords, June 25,1932.

Cricket captain : C K Naidu For the 1932 tour of England.

Oneday captain :Ajit Wadekar.

Bowler who made hattric in Test cricket: Harbhajan Singh.

Bowler who made hattric in one day international: Chetan Sharma.

Batsman who made 300 runs in test cricket: Virender Sehwag.

WOMENS CRICKET
* Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played
by women. The first recorded match was in England on 26 July 1745.

* Women's cricket has been played internationally since the inaugural women's
Test match between England women and Australia women in December 1934.
The following year, New Zealand women joined them. in 2007 Netherlands
women became the tenth women's Test nation when they made their debut
against South Africa women.
* Women's One Day Internationals (ODIs) were introduced in 1973 at the
inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup. The 1,000th women's ODI took place in
2016.

In 2004, a shorter format still was introduced, with the introduction of women's
Twenty20 International. Initially, women's Twenty20 cricket was played little at
international level, with only four matches played by the end of 2006.

* The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is the sport's oldest world championship,
with the first tournament held in England in 1973. Matches are played as One Day
Internationals (ODIs) over 50 overs, while there is also another championship
for Twenty20 International cricket, the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.

1973 ,Womens cricket world cup,20 June to 28 July,

Venue- England

Winner-England

Runners up-Australia

Last,2017 World cup cricket, 24 June to 23 July

Venue—England and Wales

Winner-England

Runners up- India

2022 World cup cricket

The 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup was the twelfth edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup,
which was held in New Zealand in March and April 2022. It was originally scheduled for 6 February to 7
March 2021 but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 December 2021,
the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament would start on 4 March 2022,
with the final scheduled for 3 April 2022.

Venue—New Zealand

Winner-Australia(7th title)
Runners up-England

Most runs-- Alyssa Healy (509)

Most wickets--- Sophie Ecclestone (21)

Records for highest runs and highest wicket takers in Women's

Cricket World Cup so far

Most runs--- Debbie Hockley (1,501)

Most wickets--- Jhulan Goswami (43)

Womens
1.India's first woman president :Pratibha Patil

2.India's first woman Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi.

3.India's first woman Governor :Sarojini Naidu

4.India's first woman IPS officer :Kiran bedi.

5.First woman chief minister of state: Sucheta Kriplani.

6.First woman Union Minister :Raj Kumari Amrita Kaur.

7.First woman president of INC: Annie Besant.

8.First woman judge of Supreme Court: Fatima Bibi.

9.First woman to get Ashok Chakra :Neerja Bhanot

10.First Indian woman Ambassador at UNGA(8th): Vijaya Lakshmi

Pandit.

11.First Indian woman to get Nobel Prize: Mother Teresa

12.First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal

13.First Indian woman to become miss world: Reita Faria

14.First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice :Santosh Yadhav

15.First Indian woman to become miss universe: Sushmita Sen

16.First Indian woman to get Bharat Ratna: Indira Gandhi

17.First Indian woman to get Jnanpith award: ashapurna Devi

18.First Indian woman airline pilot : Sarla Thukral

19.First Indian woman commercial airline pilot :Durba Banerjee

20.First Indian woman rafale pilot: Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh

(Rafale Rani)

Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh, the country's first Rafale pilot, was a
part of the Indian Air Force (IAF) tableau that featured in the 73rd
Republic Day parade in 2022. She joined the IAF's fighter stream in
2017 and flew the MiG-21 Bison aircraft before being posted to a Rafale
squadron based in Ambala.

She is only the second woman fighter jet pilot to be part of the IAF
tableau.

Last year 2021, Flight Lieutenant Bhawna Kanth became the first female
fighter jet pilot to be part of the IAF tableau.

21.First Indian woman fighter pilot: Avani Chaturvedi.

Flight Lieutenant Avani Chaturvedi (born 27 October 1993) is an Indian

pilot from Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh. She was declared as the first
woman combat pilot along with two of her cohorts, Mohana Singh
Jitarwal (Jhunjhunu,Rajasthan), and Bhawana Kanth (Darbhanga,
Bihar). The trio was inducted into the Indian Air Force fighter squadron
in June 2016. They were formally commissioned by then Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar on 18th June 2016, to serve the nation.

22.First Indian woman to win gold in Asian games: Kamaljeet Sandhu

23.First Indian woman president of INC: Sarojini Naidu

24.First Indian woman to Booker prize :Arundhati Roy

25.First woman musician to get Bharat Ratna: MS Subbalaxmi

26.First Indian woman go to space: Kalpana Chawla.

27.The army officer from Haryana who has become Indian Army's first woman combat
aviator when she graduated from Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik :
Captain Abhilasha Barak

Others
President of the Indian National Congress: Umesh Chandra
Banerjee,1885.

First artificial satellite launched into Orbit : Sputnik 1,1957.

First animal to orbit earth: A dog name Laika ,1957.

First man in space : Yuri Gagarin ,1961

First woman in space: Valentina tereshkova, 1963.

Fast space walk : Aleksei leonov ,1965.

First human to walk on the moon :Neil Armstrong,1969.

First spacecraft to orbit Saturn: Cassini Huygens, in July 1,2004.

First people to reach the South Pole: Ronald amundsen in Dec 14 1911.

First people to reach the north pole :Robert Peary 1909.