300 Firsts

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First US president to be a Rhodes Scholar
Bill Clinton

First US vice president to assume presidency upon the death of the president
John Tyler (1841)

First unelected US vice president to become president
Gerald R.Ford (1974)

First American Indian to become a US Senator
Charles Curtis (1907)

First openly gay U.S congressperson
Barney Frank (1981)

First Black to become US secretary of state
Colin Powell

First black secretary general of united nations
Trygve Lie, Norway (1946)

First prime minister of UK
Robert Walpole (1721)

First English Monarch to live in Bucking Ham Palace
Queen Victoria (1837)

First British Monarch to have a televised coronation
Elizabeth II (1953)

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First prime minister of Canada
Sir John Alexander Mcdonald (1867)

First Tsar of Russia
Ivan IV, the Terrible (1547)

First reigning queen of England
Queen of Mary I (Bloody Mary) (1553)

First Indian prime minister to be voted out of office
Indira Gandhi, when the Indian National congress lost to the Janata Party(1977)

First Non congress government in India
Janata party government with Morarji Desai as the prime minister (1977-1979)

First emperor of Rome
Augustus (27 BC)

First prime minister of Canada
Sir John A. Macdonald (1867)

First black president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela (1994)

First country to implement ‘right to vote’ for women (female suffrage)
New Zealand (1893)

First great woman in record history
Hatshepsut (1479 BC)

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First black woman in US Seneate
Carol Elizabeth Modeley Braun, lllonois (1992)

First woman nominated for president of the US by a major political party
Margaret Chase Smith, Maine, at the republican national convention in San Francisco (1964)

World’s first woman prime minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka. She is the first woman to be elected the head of state (1960)

First woman president in the world
Isabel Peron, Argentina (1974)

First democratically elected woman head if the state
Vigdls FinnbogadUttir, President of Iceland (1980

First woman prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir. She is the first Jewish woman prime minister (1964)

First woman president of the Philippines
Corazon Aquino. She is the first Philippine president not to seek a second term (1986)

First woman prime minister of Canada
Kim Campbell (1993)

First woman chancellor of Germany
Dr. Angela Merkel (2005)

First woman prime minister of India
Indira Gandhi (1996)

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First woman president of Chile
Michelle Bachelet(2006)

First African elected woman head of state
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia(2005)

First woman Vice presidential nominee of a major US political party
Geraldine Ferraro (1984)

First woman to become president of UN general assembly
Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)

First woman US secretary of state
Madeleine Albright (1966)

Black woman to serve a US secretary of state
Condoleezza Rice (2005)

First woman to serve as US national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice (2001)

US first lady
Martha Washington (1789)

Britain’s first woman MP
Viscountess (Nancy) Astor, House of commons (1919 Nov 28)

First woman president of the Indian national congress
Annie Besant (1917)

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First woman chief minister of a state in India
Sucheta Kripalini, Uttar Pradesh (1963-67)

First woman governor of a state in India
Srojini Naidu, united provinces (UP) (1947-49)

First woman speaker of the US house of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi (2007)

First woman deputy chairman of Indian Rajya Sabha
Violet Alva (1962-69)

First woman prime minister of Turkey
Tansu Ciller (1993 Jun 14)


Woman prime minister of Britain
Margaret Thatcher (1979 May o4)

First woman member of a US presidential cabinet
Frances Perkins, Secretary of labour under Franklin D. Roosevelt. (1933)

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Sports



First Asian city to host Olympics
Tokyo, Japan (1964)

First tour de France (road bicycle race) winner
Maurice Garin (1903)

First recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion
Tim Hyer (1841)

World’s first chess champion
Wilhelm Steinitz (1886)

First golf club in the world
Honourable company of Edinburg Golfers (1744)

First footballer of the year
Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer. He was also the first European footballer to be knighted in 1965. (1948)

First man to run a mile under a minutes
British athlete Sir Roger Bannister. He established this record at lffley Road Track, Oxford in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds (1954)

First Indian Olympic team medal
Gold for Hockey. At Amsterdam beating the Netherlands (1928)

First Indian Olympic individual medal winner
K.D Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki (1952)

First athlete disqualified at the Olympics for drug us
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at the mexico summer Olympics (1968)

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The first cricket club
Cricket club founded in Hambeldon, a village in southern England (1750)

First Indian cricket tournament
The Bombay Triangular which late became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912)

First Indian cricket test match
Against England at Lord’s (1932)

First Indian cricket captain
CK Nayudu, for the tour of England (1932)

First Indian cricketer to score a century
Lala Amarnath, against England in South Bomaby. He was also independent India’s first test captain leading a tour of Australia in 1947-48 (1933)

First Indian cricketer to score a triple century
Virender Sehwag, against Pakistan at Multan(2004)

First Indian hat-trick in test cricket
Harbhajan Singh, against Australia (2001)

First Indian batsman to complete 10,000 runs
Sunil Gavaskar. He was first in the world to achieve this

First Indian Tennis Grand Slam title
Mahesh Bhupathi, partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki, in the mixed doubles category of the French Open (1997)

First Indian woman to appear in an olympic final
P.T Usha, Los angeles olympics (1984)