2015 Event The U.S. Navy announces that it will allow women to undergo its intensive 6-month SEAL training; female candidates who pass the course will be able to serve on SEAL teams 2014 Event The Church of England announces that it has changed its rules to allow female bishops; the church has allowed female priests for the last 20 years but has not allowed women to serve in higher positions until now Facebook and Apple are offering to pay the costs of freezing the eggs of female employees covered by the companies' insurance plans; the companies see the offering as a way to help women focus on their careers if they wish to delay motherhood Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife 19-year-old golfer Hyo-Joo Kim wins the title round of the Evian Championship, becoming the third-youngest female golfer to win a major Iran is strengthening gender segregation policies, forbidding women to work in public areas of restaurants and seeking separation from men in office settings; the move will increase the 18.9% female jobless rate The 'New York Times' fires its first female executive editor Jill Abramson after three years in the position; Abramson has been replaced by Dean Baquet, the newspaper's first African-American executive editor Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen set a new record for the highest number of Olympic medals awarded to a female Winter Olympics athlete after her gold medal at Sochi; Bjoergen has won ten Olympic medals over to date, including six golds 2013 Event Chilean voters elect President Michelle Bachelet in the country's presidential election; Bachelet served as the first female Chilean president in 2006 U.S. automaker General Motors appoints Mary Barra CEO; she becomes the first female to become CEO of an automative company 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 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 America's first female astronaut, Sally Ride, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 61 France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress 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 Helle Thorning-Schmidt introduces the new coalition government, officially becoming Denmark's 41st and first female Prime Minister Together with male and female, 'indeterminate' can now be listed as a gender on Australian passports Thailand's parliament officially elects Yingluck Shinawatra as Prime Minister of Thailand; Yingluck is Thailand's first female Prime Minister Lara Giddings becomes the first female Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania 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 Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment 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 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 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 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski 1996 Event Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan 1995 Event Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450) Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec) Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec) Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77) 1994 Event Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57) Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36) 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 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding 1993 Event Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey 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 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate 1992 Death Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71 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 Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61 Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) Kelly Saunders is 1st female baseball announcer for the Baltimore Orioles Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31) Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) 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 Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 seconds) Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53) Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU 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 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 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary 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 Janet Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22) Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48) Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop 1988 Event Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) Janet Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) 1988 Death Divine, Harris Milstead, female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94) Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas 1987 Event Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) Janet Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17) Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91) Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C. U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary 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) Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas 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 Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin 1984 Event 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners 1983 Event Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) Elizabeth Dole, 1st female secretary of transportation, is sworn-in U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners 1982 Event Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta 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 Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91) 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 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1979 Event Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters 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 Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic) Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30") Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1977 Event Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1976 Event Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04) Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill 1975 Event Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24) U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill 1974 Event Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) 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 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 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance California, female infielder, Silver Bullets U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn 1972 Birthday Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder, Silver Bullets Laurie Shepard, Cordele, Georgia, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets 1972 Event Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) Tamarie Ivie, born in Ananheim, California, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball 1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25 Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female U.S. rabbi Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer, Tampa Bay 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 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) Shae Sloan, Huntsville, Texas, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets Wendee Espinosa, born in Stockton, California, female outfielder, Silver Bullets Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) Pam Schaffrath, born in Chicago, Illinois, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets Swiss men accept female suffrage 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 Missy Cress, born in Burbank, California, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals Shannan Mitchem, born in Decatur, Georgia, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53) 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 Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee, Florida, female pitcher, Silver Bullets 1969 Event Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage Kim Braatz, born in Santa Ana, California, female outfielder, Colorado Silver Bullets Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister 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 Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) 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' Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland 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 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 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice 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 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming 1964 Event George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) 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 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) 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 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 Susanna M. Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101 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 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen 1960 Event Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon 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 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 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 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service 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 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 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 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 Toni Tennille, Montgomery, Alabama, female Beachboy, Captain and Tennille 1942 Event Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) 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 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 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 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 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 1931 Event Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage 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 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) 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 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 Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop, Methodist 1919 Event Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage 1917 Event 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor 1916 Event Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage Norway approves active and passive female suffrage 1913 Event 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage 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 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) 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 Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician 1905 Birthday Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice 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 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator 1895 Event U.S. state Utah accepts female suffrage 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 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 Julian Eltinge, Massachusetts, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator 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) 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 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary 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)
