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2013 Event - In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister

2012 Event - All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch

2012 Event - Ending a 50-year ban on veiled female news presenters, Egypt's state television gives its female presenters a choice of wearing, or not wearing, a veil

2012 Event - America's first female astronaut, Sally Ride, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 61

2012 Event - France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress

2012 Event - Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship

2011 Event - In Cairo, thousands of Egyptian women demonstrate against military police for abuse against female demonstrators in Tahir Square

2011 Event - Helle Thorning-Schmidt introduces the new coalition government, officially becoming Denmark's 41st and first female Prime Minister

2011 Event - Together with male and female, 'indeterminate' can now be listed as a gender on Australian passports

2011 Event - Thailand's parliament officially elects Yingluck Shinawatra as Prime Minister of Thailand; Yingluck is Thailand's first female Prime Minister

2011 Event - Lara Giddings becomes the first female Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania

2011 Event - Brazil swears in Dilma Rousseff, its first female president

2010 Event - Known as Africa's female Mandela, Victoire Ingabire, Rwanda's opposition leader, is arrested on charges of forming a terrorist organization

2010 Event - Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment

2010 Event - At least 80 schoolgirls attending different Kunduz schools are poisoned this week; an inquiry is launched and the Taliban, opposed to female education, deny any involvement

2010 Event - At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury

2010 Death - Florence Green, the last known female First World War veteran who served with the Women's RAF in 1918, dies at 108

2009 Event - A bomb explodes outside of Athens' stock exchange, damaging the building and a female passer-by

2000 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship

1998 Death - Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89

1998 Event - 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0

1998 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan

1997 Death - Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70

1997 Event - 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole

1997 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski

1996 Event - Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop

1996 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan

1995 Event - Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)

1995 Event - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)

1995 Event - Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)

1995 Event - Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)

1995 Event - Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)

1995 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek

1995 Event - Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)

1995 Event - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77

1995 Event - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)

1994 Event - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka

1994 Event - Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)

1994 Event - Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle

1994 Event - Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke

1994 Event - Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)

1994 Event - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)

1994 Event - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)

1994 Death - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi

1994 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

1993 Event - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey

1993 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan

1993 Death - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85

1992 Event - Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests

1992 Event - Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate

1992 Death - Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71

1992 Event - 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period

1992 Death - Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61

1992 Event - Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)

1992 Event - Kelly Saunders is 1st female baseball announcer for the Baltimore Orioles

1992 Event - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate

1992 Event - Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns

1992 Event - Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)

1992 Event - Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)

1992 Event - Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)

1992 Event - Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)

1992 Event - U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.

1991 Event - Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year

1991 Event - Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 seconds)

1991 Event - Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)

1991 Event - Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier

1991 Event - Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)

1991 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

1991 Event - Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU

1991 Event - Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)

1990 Event - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland

1990 Death - Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42

1990 Event - Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)

1990 Birthday - Princess Eugenie of York, born in Portland Hospital, London, the sixth and the second female in the succession line to the thrones of sixteen independent Commonwealth states

1990 Event - Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general

1990 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

1990 Event - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)

1989 Event - New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman)

1989 Death - Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Netherlands 1st female advisor of State, dies

1989 Event - Janet Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)

1989 Event - Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)

1989 Event - Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)

1989 Event - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade

1989 Event - Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church

1989 Event - Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)

1989 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

1989 Event - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop

1988 Event - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan

1988 Event - Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)

1988 Event - Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)

1988 Event - Janet Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)

1988 Death - Divine, Harris Milstead, female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies

1988 Event - Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)

1988 Event - Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)

1988 Event - Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)

1988 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

1987 Event - Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)

1987 Event - Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)

1987 Event - Janet Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)

1987 Event - Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)

1987 Event - Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)

1987 Event - Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)

1987 Event - Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)

1987 Event - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.

1987 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

1987 Event - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin

1986 Death - Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74

1986 Event - Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)

1986 Event - Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)

1986 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

1986 Event - Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart

1985 Event - Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs U.S. 3K female record 8:25.83

1985 Event - Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)

1985 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin

1984 Event - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1984 Event - Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)

1984 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

1983 Event - Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor

1983 Event - Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky

1983 Event - Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)

1983 Event - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)

1983 Event - Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)

1983 Event - Elizabeth Dole, 1st female secretary of transportation, is sworn-in

1983 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

1982 Event - Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta

1982 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

1981 Birthday - Serena Williams, born in Saginaw, Michigan, professional tennis player, winner, top earning female athlete of all time, 5th Australian title at 2010 Australian Open

1981 Event - Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice

1981 Event - Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)

1981 Event - 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL

1981 Event - Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m

1981 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak

1981 Event - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)

1981 Event - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)

1980 Death - Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70

1980 Event - 1st female state police graduates, New Jersey

1980 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1979 Event - Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages

1979 Event - Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters

1979 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1978 Event - Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor

1978 Death - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts and Female), dies in New York at 76

1978 Event - Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)

1978 Event - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic)

1978 Event - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30")

1978 Event - Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)

1978 Event - Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female

1978 Event - Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps

1978 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1977 Event - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)

1977 Event - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)

1977 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1976 Event - Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)

1976 Event - Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor

1976 Event - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy

1976 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill

1975 Event - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)

1975 Event - Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)

1975 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill

1974 Event - Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)

1974 Event - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)

1974 Event - Episcopal Church ordained female priests

1974 Birthday - Tammy Holmes, born in Berkeley, California, female outfielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1974 Death - Candy Darling, James Slattery, female impersonator, dies

1974 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill

1973 Birthday - Christine Monge, born in San Francisco, California, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1973 Event - 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine

1973 Event - Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race

1973 Event - 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)

1973 Birthday - Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance California, female infielder, Silver Bullets

1973 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1972 Birthday - Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder, Silver Bullets

1972 Birthday - Laurie Shepard, Cordele, Georgia, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1972 Event - Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)

1972 Birthday - Tamarie Ivie, born in Ananheim, California, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1972 Event - Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball

1972 Event - 1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25

1972 Event - Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female U.S. rabbi

1972 Birthday - Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer, Tampa Bay

1972 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1971 Birthday - Alyson Habetz, Crowley, Louisiana, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1971 Event - Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000

1971 Death - TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50

1971 Event - Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)

1971 Birthday - Shae Sloan, Huntsville, Texas, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1971 Birthday - Wendee Espinosa, born in Stockton, California, female outfielder, Silver Bullets

1971 Event - Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)

1971 Birthday - Pam Schaffrath, born in Chicago, Illinois, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1971 Event - Swiss men accept female suffrage

1971 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1970 Birthday - Camille Spitaleri, born in Mountain View, California, female infielder, Silver Bullets

1970 Event - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship

1970 Birthday - Missy Cress, born in Burbank, California, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1970 Event - Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals

1970 Birthday - Shannan Mitchem, born in Decatur, Georgia, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1970 Event - Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)

1970 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1970 Death - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70

1969 Birthday - Marcie Aguilar, born in Tucson, Arizona, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1969 Birthday - Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee, Florida, female pitcher, Silver Bullets

1969 Event - Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage

1969 Birthday - Kim Braatz, born in Santa Ana, California, female outfielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1969 Event - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track

1969 Event - Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister

1969 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1968 Birthday - Melissa Coombes, born in San Gabriel, California, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1968 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1967 Event - Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)

1967 Death - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34

1967 Birthday - Cara Coughenour, born in Sioux City, Iowa, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1967 Event - Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)

1967 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1966 Event - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage

1966 Birthday - Ronna Reeves, born in Big Spring, Texas, female country music singer, albums titled, 'Only the Heart', 'The More I Learn', 'What Comes Naturally'

1966 Event - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland

1966 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1965 Birthday - Stacy Sunny, San Bernadino California, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1965 Event - Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah

1965 Birthday - Shania Twain, born in Windsor, Canada, born Eileen Regina Edwards, singer, album, 'Come on Over' best-selling album of all time by a female musician

1965 Event - Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice

1965 Event - Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg)

1965 Death - Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83

1965 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1964 Event - George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans

1964 Event - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH

1964 Event - Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)

1964 Event - Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)

1964 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1964 Birthday - Bridget Fonda, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Scandal, Single White Female

1963 Birthday - Michele McAnany, born in Los Angeles, California, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets

1963 Birthday - Julie Krone, born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, jockey, 1st female to win Belmont-93

1963 Event - 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)

1963 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon

1962 Event - Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st U.S. black female judge

1962 Death - Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77

1962 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles

1961 Event - For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year

1961 Death - Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67

1961 Birthday - Pat Dufficy, born in Westerly, Rhode Island, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1961 Death - Susanna M. Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101

1961 Birthday - Wendy Liebman, born in Manhasset, New York, comedian, performs stand up comedy, American Comedy Award for Female Stand-up Comedian of the Year, 1997, appeared on HBO, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Tonight Show

1961 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen

1960 Event - Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)

1960 Event - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon

1960 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss

1959 Death - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76

1959 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss

1958 Event - Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours

1958 Birthday - Jennifer Jason Leigh, Morrow, LA Cal, actress, Single White Female

1957 Event - Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ")

1956 Event - Female suffrage in Egypt

1955 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright

1955 Event - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge

1954 Birthday - Sarah Lundy, born in America, horse trainer, won Sam F. Davis Stakes, Tampa Bay Downs, 1993, first female trainer to saddle a horse in the Belmont Stakes

1954 Birthday - Sonia Sotomayor, born in the Bronx, New York City, first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, third female Supreme Court justice

1953 Event - Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage

1953 Event - 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service

1953 Event - Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State

1951 Event - Swiss males votes against female suffrage

1951 Birthday - Stephen Tobolowsky, Texas, actor, Single White Female, Thelma and Louise

1951 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer

1949 Event - GN Clark becomes 1st female U.S. treasurer

1948 Death - Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70

1948 Event - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy

1948 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill

1947 Birthday - Camille Paglia, born in Endicott, New York, actress, Female Misbehavior, It's Pat

1947 Birthday - Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier, 1993-

1945 Birthday - Khaleda Zia, born in Dinajpur District, India, first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 - 1996, listed in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World 2006

1944 Event - 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1943 Birthday - Tarja Halonen, born in Kallio, Finland, politician, lawyer, Social Democratic Party, first female President of Finland

1943 Birthday - Toni Tennille, Montgomery, Alabama, female Beachboy, Captain and Tennille

1942 Event - Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)

1942 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

1941 Birthday - Barbet Schroeder, director, Barfly, Single White Female, More

1941 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

1940 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1939 Birthday - Germaine Greer, born in Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author, Female Eunich

1939 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1938 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1937 Death - Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic, dies at 40

1937 Birthday - Joanna Russ, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Female Man, Alyx

1937 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

1937 Event - K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-U.S. female lawyer

1936 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

1935 Birthday - Geraldine Ferraro, born in Newburgh, New York, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, 1st female Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1984

1935 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

1934 Event - Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games

1934 Birthday - Jane Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, first female Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 - 1983, served as head of consumer affairs

1934 Event - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers

1933 Birthday - Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush

1933 Birthday - Dianne Feinstein, born in San Francisco, California, 1st female mayor of San Francisco, Senator-D-California 1992 -

1933 Event - 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office

1933 Event - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

1931 Event - Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage

1931 Event - Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball

1930 Birthday - Barbara Harris, 1st U.S. Episcopal female bishop

1930 Death - Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies

1929 Event - Turkey introduces female suffrage

1929 Death - Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75

1929 Event - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)

1928 Event - British parliament accept female sufferage

1927 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

1926 Event - Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)

1925 Birthday - Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section

1925 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

1924 Event - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming)

1924 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1923 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1922 Event - Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator

1922 Event - Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team

1922 Birthday - Jeanne Sauve, 1st female Governor-General, Canada, 1984-90

1921 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1920 Birthday - T C Jones, Pennsylvania, female impersonator

1920 Birthday - Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop, Methodist

1919 Event - Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament

1919 Event - US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament

1919 Event - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members

1919 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage

1917 Event - 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh

1917 Event - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor

1916 Event - Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage

1916 Event - Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage

1916 Event - Norway approves active and passive female suffrage

1913 Event - 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage

1913 Event - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C.

1912 Event - Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage

1912 Birthday - Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author

1910 Event - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

1910 Event - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage

1910 Event - World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)

1910 Event - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot

1908 Event - Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female

1907 Birthday - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor

1907 Birthday - Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician

1905 Birthday - Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice

1905 Birthday - Thelma Todd, Alison Loyd, Lawrence, Massachusetts, actress, Dangerous Female

1903 Event - Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage

1902 Event - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage

1901 Event - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization

1899 Birthday - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney, NY

1896 Event - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator

1896 Event - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator

1895 Event - U.S. state Utah accepts female suffrage

1895 Event - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)

1894 Event - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms

1893 Event - State Colorado accept female suffrage

1890 Event - Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., 1st with female suffrage

1890 Event - Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer

1889 Death - Belle Starr, U.S. female gangster, murdered at 40

1885 Birthday - Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator, appointed

1884 Event - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President

1883 Birthday - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator

1883 Birthday - Julian Eltinge, Massachusetts, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator

1883 Birthday - Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Netherlands 1st female prof, Utrecht, 1917-52

1882 Event - 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office

1880 Birthday - Jeannette Rankin, born in Missoula, Montana, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, becomes 1st female member of Congress

1880 Death - Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, 1st female member of Congress, died at age 92 from natural causes

1879 Event - 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

1878 Birthday - Karl Albiker, German sculptor, German Art, female nudes

1878 Event - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)

1878 Event - U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage

1877 Birthday - Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian female pilot

1876 Event - Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)

1875 Birthday - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member, SDAP, 1918-37

1870 Event - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate

1870 Event - Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary

1870 Event - Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge

1865 Event - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor

1861 Event - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer

1860 Birthday - Susanna M. Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor and temperance leader

1854 Birthday - Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician

1852 Event - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)

1850 Event - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)

1848 Event - Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston

1848 Birthday - Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], U.S. female outlaw, wild west

1838 Event - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class

1838 Birthday - Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"

1829 Birthday - Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England

1825 Birthday - Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy, 1st ordained U.S. female minister

1805 Event - Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America

1804 Birthday - George Sand, born in France, female, novelist, Valentine, Le Figaro

1804 Death - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies

1795 Birthday - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army

1762 Event - 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1759 Birthday - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist, Female Reader

1656 Event - All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)

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