India gets its first female president:
Pratibha Patil, stayed in office as the head of state for 5 years.

Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space:
She spent 3.5 hours in space testing tools. Svetlana Savitskaya was also the second woman to go into space and the first to go to space twice.

World’s first test tube baby is born
Louise Joy Brown was the first person to be conceived using in-vitro fertilization or IVF technology, pioneered by doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.

The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.