Women in History

No woman has been on the moon, yet - only twelve men, and only Americans.

She was the first American woman to go into space.

The first woman to go into space was a Russian - Valentina Tereshkova - in 1963, twenty years before Sally Ride made it.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 - May 18, 1973) was the first woman in the United States Congress, elected in Montana in 1916 and again in 1940.

Anne Frank, diarist.

Vera Lynn, singer

Marlene Dietrich, singer

Violette Szabo, SOE (British Special Operations Executive, - resistance fighter/spy)

Odette Sansom, SOE

Nancy Wake, SOE

Princess Noor-un-isa Inayat Khan, SOE

Andree Peel, "Agent Rose", French resistance

Lucie Aubrac, French resistance

Mildred Fish Harnack, US citizen executed by the Gestapo for treason

Andree de Jongh, Belgian resistance

Virginia Hall, OSS (US Office of Strategic Services, - resistance fighter/spy)

Josephine Baker, singer, stripper, French resistance spy

Lela Karayanni, Greek resistance

Hannie Schaft, Dutch resistance

Wanda Gerz, Polish Army

Ludmila Pavluchenko, Russian sniper

Natalya Mykelin, Russian fighter pilot

Irma Greise, Belsen camp guard

Clara Petacci, Mussolini's mistress

Eva Braun, married Hitler in 1945

Mona van Duyn was the first person to hold the title Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, in 1992-3. However, Louise Bogan held the previous version of the title, Consultant in Poetry in 1945-6.

6 medals were awarded in 1901 at the first award ceremony. The Physics prize went to Rontgen, the Chemistry to van t'Hoff, the Peace prize to Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy,the Medicine prize to Behring and the Literature prize to Sully Prudhomme.

Chinyere Kalu became Nigeria's first female pilot in 1978.

Flying Officer Blessing Linman is the country's first female military pilot.

Catherine believed in many of the principles of the Enlightenment. But, after the French Revolution showed the bloodshed and lack of monarchy those principles could lead to, she stopped supporting them. She died during the Revolution, so there is no way to know what other reactions she would have had.

The first Olympic event that women won medals in was ladies singles tennis at the 1900 Games in Paris. Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain won gold, Hélène Prévost of France won silver, and Hedwiga Rosenbaumová of Bohemia and Marion Jones of the United States won bronze.

President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to replace Justice Potter Stewart in 1981. Justice O'Connor served on the Court from September 22, 1981 until her retirement on January 31, 2006, and was succeeded by incumbent Justice Samuel Alito.

Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney OBE (November 20, 1897-February 24, 1994) was an Australian aviatrix and the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England.

Born as Maude Rose Rubens, in Pretoria, South Africa, she adopted the name "Lores" later in preference to her given names. The family moved first to England, then to Australia. After education first in Melbourne, and then at a finishing school in Germany, she met and married Harry Bonney, a leather goods manufacturer in 1917 and moved to Brisbane, Queensland.

In 1928 she met Harry Bonney's cousin, Bert Hinkler, a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England-Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane). His exploits fired her imagination and her first flight in his Avian confirmed her determination to learn to fly. She took her first lessons secretly, but when she told her husband, he bought her the DH 60 Gypsy Moth with which she began her record-breaking flights.

In 1931 she set the record for the longest one day flight by a woman,

In 1932 she became the first woman to circumnavigate Australia by air,

In 1933 she became the first woman to fly from from Australia to England,

In 1934 she became the first woman to fly from Australia to South Africa.

The women's marathon was introduced into the Summer Olympics in 1984. The first woman to win a gold medal in the marathon was Joan Benoit of the United States in a time of 2:24:52. American marathon runner, Joan Benoit won the Marathon at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court was Sandra Day O'Connor. She was officially sworn in and took her seat on September 25, 1981.

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Harriet Quimby, also the first to fly the English Channel solo and thus cross national lines between England and France.

She won the by-election in Lyttelton in 1933 caused by the death of her husband James McCombs.

The first woman to be elected to the Parliament of Canada was Agnes McPahil. She stayed in Parliament for 19 years, she was the only woman in the House of Commons, she was one of the famous five, which helped appoint a woman senator, and fought for suffrage for women. Mackenzie King offered her a position in his cabinet to join his political party.

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Lilith, the Black Moon A: The first woman named in the Holy Bible is 'EVE'. See Genesis 3:20, And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Captain John Smith was from the dominant culture. The story, as told by John Smith, reflects his viewpoint and is biased by his experiences, politics, and religious views. In order to understand the situation, one has to examine both sides of the story.

Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, in 2008 became the first woman to be the Republican nominee for vice-president .