GENERAL KNOWLEDGE(GK)
IMPORTANT DATES
Jan 12 Natonal Youth Day(BirthDay of Swami Vivekanand)
Jan 15 Army Day
Jan 26 Republic Day
Feb 14 St.Valentine's Day
Mar 8 International Women's Day
Mar 21 World Forestry Day
Mar 22 World Day for Water
April 14 B.R Ambedkar Rememberance Day
April 22 World Earth Day
May 1 International Labour Day(May Day)
May 31 World No Tabacco Day
June 5 World Envrionment Day
July 4 American Independence Day
July 11 World Population Day
Aug 15 India's Independence Day
Aug 29 Sports Day(Dhyachand's birthday)
Sept 5 Teacher's Day
Sept 14 Hindi Day, World First Aid Day
Oct 2 Gandhi Jayanti/Non Violence Day
Oct 8 Indian Airforce Day
Oct 24 United Nations Day
Nov 14 Childern's Day/World Diabetics day
Nov 17 Guru Nanak Dev's Birth Anniversary
Dec 1 World AIDS Day
Dec 4 Navy Day
Dec 10 Human Rights Day
FIRST IN INDIA
MALE
The First President of Indian Dr Rajendra Prasad
Republic
The First Prime Minister of Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru
Free India
The First Indian to win Rabindra Nath Tagore
Noble Prize
The First President of
Indian National Congress WC Bannerjee
The First British Governor Lord William Bentinck
General of India
The First British Viceroy Lord Canning
of India
The First Governor General Lord Mountbatten
of Free India
The First and the Last Indian to
be Governor General of Free India C Rajgopalachari
India's First man in space Rakesh Sharma
The First Indian Commander-in-
Chief of India General Cariappa
The First Indian to receive Bharat
Ratan Award Dr Radhakrishnan
The First Speaker of the Lok
Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The Vice-President of India Dr Radhakrishnan
The First Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad
The First Home Minister of India Sarder Vallabh Bhai Patel
The First Indian Air Chief Marshal S Mukherjee
The Fimrst Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen
The First person to receive Magsaysay Acharya Vinba Bhave
Award
The First Chinese traveller to visit India Fahein
The First Foreigner to receive Bharat Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Ratan
The First Chief Justice of supreme Court Justice Hiralal J Kania
FEMALE
The First and the last Muslim Woman ruler Razia Sultan
of Delhi
The First lady to become 'Miss World' Rita Faria
The First woman judge in Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The First woman Governor of a State in free Mrs Sarojini Naidu
India
The First Woman Prime Minister Mrs Indra Gandhi
The First woman President of the Indian
National Congress Mrs Annie Besant
The First woman chief justice of a High Court Mrs Leela Seth
The First woman president of the United
Nations General Assembly Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The First woman I.P.S Officer Mrs Kiran Bedi
The First woman to cross English Channel Arti Saha
The First woman to receive Noble Prize Mother Teresa
The First woman to receive Bharat Ratan Mrs Indira Gandhi
The First woman President of India Mrs Pratibha Patil
DANCE OF INDIA
Bharat Natyam Tamil Nadu
Bhangra Punjab
Chhau Bihar,Orissa,West Bengal and Jharkhand
Garba Gujarat
Kathak North India
Kathakali Kerala
Kutchipudi Andhra Pradesh
Mohiniattam Kerala
Manipuri Manipur
Odissi Orissa
Rauf Jammu & Kashmir
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