‘Mangalyaan’ means Mars Craft in Hindi. Tuesday – November 05th, 2013
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First Time Exhibit on ‘ Art of Yoga ‘ at the Smithsonian Museum. October 2013 .
Yoga moves from the studio mat to the museum gallery.
A first time exhibition about the visual history and art of yoga, its origin and evolution over time, at the Smithsonian Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States. October 19th, 2013.
First Indian iconic ‘ Guess Girl ‘. October 2013 .
Priyanka Chopra, Bollywood superstar, former Miss World has been selected as the face of Guess.
She will be featured in the brands’ Holiday 2013 advertising campaign in leading fashion magazines.
Priyanka is not only the first woman to be named a ‘Guess Girl’ but the first non-white woman in the 30 years the company has advertised.
The other famous faces, fashion icons posing for the Guess clothing line include, Claudia Schiffer (twice), Alessandria Ambrosio, Kate Upton, Adriana Lima, Paris Hilton and Drew Barrymore.
India’s First ‘Junior MasterChef ‘ . November 2013.
Dehradun based Sarthwak Bharadwaj was judged the winner of the first season of Kids’ cooking reality show ‘Junior MasterChef – Swaad Ke Ustad’. Saturday,November 02nd, 2013.
Britain’s First Indian-Origin Woman Magistrate . 1970 .
Chand Lal-Sarin moved from Punjab and landed in Coventry City, Britain in 1962. She was appointed as Magistrate in 1970 making her Britain’s first Indian-origin magistrate.
Chand Lal-Sarin expired in the city of Coventry at the age of 84, November 2013. She is survived by her husband Dr.Daman, a dentist who has his own practice in Board Street, Coventry and her daughter Renuka Kapoor.
First in India – Schoolboy scores over 500 runs in School Cricket. November 2013 .
Prithvi Shaw scored 546 runs in a little over 4 sessions of school cricket in ‘The Lord Harris Shield’ inter-school tournament making him the highest scorer ever in India’s school cricket fixtures.
14 year old, 5’1″ Prithvi Shaw, a school boy re-wrote history by scoring 546 runs (367 minutes, 330 deliveries, 85 fours and 5 sixes) for his school Rizvi Springfield at Bandra, Mumbai whilst playing aginst D’Assisi School at the Azad Maidan on Wednesday – November 20th, 2013
India’s First All-Woman Bank – ‘ Bharatiya Mahila Bank ‘ inaugrated. November 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi jointly inaugrated ‘Bharatiya Mahila Bank’ – India’s first state-owned all-woman bank, in Mumbai on November 19th, 2013.
The event also coincided with the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
First Sports Person to receive the highest Civilian Award the ‘ Bharat Ratna ‘. November 2013 .
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar became the first sports person from India to win the coveted ‘Bharat Ratna ‘ award.
The announcement was made by the Government of India within hours of Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement from cricket , on Saturday, November 16th, 2013.
The Bharat Ratna – is the highest civilan honour bestowed on an Indian citizen.
First Prime Minister of Independent India. 1947.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was appointed as the firt Prime Minister of Independent India by the Governor General in 1947. He served as Prime Minister till May 27th, 1964 when he died in office making him the longest serving Prime Minister of the country, a period of 17 years.
He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation state. Nehru was elected as Congress President in 1936, 1937 and 1946. He was a graduate of Cambridge University and the Inner Temple, where he trained to be a barrister.
Nehru was also a writer, scholar, historian and patriach of India’s most influential political family. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were later to serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India.
Born, Allahabad November 14th,1889 – May 27th,1964, New Delhi.