Highlights:

• Record 30 Indian Americans jump into November’s electoral battle.

• Republican Nikki Haley and Democrat Kamala Harris handily win back their jobs as South Carolina governor and California’s attorney general respectively.

• Amiresh ‘Ami’ Bera, the lone Indian American in the US House of Representatives, repeats history with a narrow win.

• Eight Indian Americans win in the states.

• Niraj Antani, 23, creates history by becoming one of America’s youngest lawmakers in Ohio.

• Former key Hillary Clinton aide Richard Rahul Verma is confirmed as the first Indian American envoy to New Delhi.

• Vivek Murthy became the youngest surgeon general and the first of Indian descent, but after waiting for more than a year for Senate confirmation.

• Software giant Microsoft names Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella as its new CEO.

• Kerala-born Stanford University’s Professor Thomas Kailath receives the Medal of Science from Obama.

• Delhi-born Sujit Choudhry becomes the first Indian American dean of Berkeley School of Law.

• Indira Talwani and Manish Shah became the first Asian American federal judges in Massachusetts and Illinois respectively.

• Bangalore born Indian American poet Vijay Seshadri wins the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

• Sriram Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe make history as they are declared co-champions in the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest after 52 years.