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2005 Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66
2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97 2003 "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed 2003 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide 2003 Althea Gibson, tennis/golf great, first black woman to win Wimbledon, dies at 76 2003 Kalpana Chawla, astronaut, first Asian Indian woman in space, payload specialist on the Columbia, STS-107, dies at 41 2000 Eva Morris, really old woman, Oldest person in 2000, dies at 114 2000 Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 2000 Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47 1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed 1998 Michelangelo, "Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million 1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" 1997 Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51 1997 Fenton Robinson, U.S. blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62 1997 Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82 1995 Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95 1995 After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel 1995 Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel 1995 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 906 performances 1995 Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Representative and Senator R-Maine, dies at 97 1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado 1995 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV 1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) 1995 Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly 1995 Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) 1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ 1993 Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff 1993 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win 1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances 1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83 1993 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins 1992 1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest 1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man 1991 Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 1991 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches 1991 Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit 1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher 1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman 1990 Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 1990 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ") 1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) 1990 Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die 1990 Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown 1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris 1988 Roy Orbison, rocker (Pretty Woman), dies of a heart attack at 52 1988 Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52 1988 Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title 1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34) 1988 Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) 1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21) 1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) 1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her 1988 Galina Chistyakova of U.S.S.R. sets long jump woman's record (24"8") 1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone 1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone 1987 O B McClinton, U.S. country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47 1987 Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10") 1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart 1987 Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36 1986 Marina Stepanova of U.S.S.R. sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94) 1986 Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33) 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74) 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida 1986 Megan Fox, born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, actress, sex symbol, debut film, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', breakout role, Mikaela Barnes in movie, 'Transformers', voted 'Sexiest Woman in the World' by FHM 1986 U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing 1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York 1985 Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart 1985 Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters 1985 Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia 1985 Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67 1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi 1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 1985 Tina Majorino, actress, Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman 1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" 1984 Margie V Barfield, U.S. murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years 1984 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan 1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st U.S. woman to walk in space 1984 Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space 1984 Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate 1984 Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman 1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel 1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) 1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia 1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st U.S. woman 1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup 1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space 1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut 1982 Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17 1982 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 1981 Melvyn Douglas, Hesselberg, actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80 1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association 1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony 1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court 1981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st U.S. woman free balloon pilot, dies 1981 "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 770 performances 1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in the United Kingdom 1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks 1980 President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court 1980 Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in U.S.S.R. 1980 Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Year 1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes 1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies 1979 Greta Weitz wins woman participation in New York City marathon (02:27:33) 1979 Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain 1979 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year 1979 Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued 1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) 1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp 1977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101 1977 Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72 1977 Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship 1977 "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12 1977 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 1977 Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one 1977 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award 1977 Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 1977 Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play 1977 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) 1976 Wonder Woman debuts on ABC 1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball 1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo 1976 "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) 1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" 1975 Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43 1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit 1975 Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76 1974 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov 1974 Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 1974 Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72 1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman 1973 Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67 1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners 1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange 1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee 1971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss 1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) 1970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) 1969 Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies 1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" 1969 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), dies at 34 1969 Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct 1969 Laura Leighton, actress, Sydney-Melrose Place, Other Woman 1969 Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah 1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah) 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America 1968 Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 1968 Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame 1968 Celine Dion, born in Quebec, Canada, singer, I'm Your Woman 1967 Julia Roberts, born in Smyrna, Georgia, actress, Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman 1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman 1966 Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon 1965 Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75 1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" 1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro 1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball 1964 Zeng Jinlian, born in Hunan, China, became tallest woman known, 2.46 m, 8'1" 1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57 1964 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world 1964 Geraldine Mock of U.S. is 1st woman to fly solo round the world 1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75 1963 Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies 1963 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State 1963 Carola Smit, Dutch singer, BZN-Bad bad woman 1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth 1963 Valentina Tereshkova (U.S.S.R.) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut 1962 Laura San Giacoma, Danville, New Jersey, actress, Pretty Woman, Vital Signs 1962 Valerie Kaprisky, born in Paris, France, actress, Breathless, Public Woman 1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90 1962 Ian Astbury, Merseyside, rock vocalist, Cult-Fire Woman 1962 Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62 1961 Johanna Westerdok, 1st Dutch woman professor (Utrecht, 1917 - 1952), dies at 78 1961 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker, Jr., Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63 1961 Les Warner, rocker, Cult-Fire Woman 1961 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell 1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74 1960 In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM 1960 Kelly LeBrock, born in New York City, actress, Weird Science, Woman in Red 1959 Cathryn Harrison, born in London, England, actress, Old Woman in Black Moon 1959 "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1959 Gwili Andre, actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon), dies 1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF) 1958 Cammie Lusko, born in Los Angeles, California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman 1957 Donna Adamek, Duarte California, bowler, BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81 1956 Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam and Woman), dies at 57 1956 Larry Blackmon, rocker, Cameo-Alligator Woman 1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar 1955 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor 1955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging 1954 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala) 1953 Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58 1953 Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami 1953 Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier 1953 Chaka Khan, born in Great Lakes, Illinois, rocker, Rufus-I am Every Woman 1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 1952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat 1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman 1952 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist, Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman 1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes 1951 Lynda Carter, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Miss USA, 1973, actress, Wonder Woman 1951 Sally Kristen Ride, born in Los Angeles, California, 1st U.S. woman astronaut, STS-7, STS 41G 1950 Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator 1950 Mathieu Carriere, Hanover W Germany, actor, Bay Boy, Woman in Flames 1950 Heidi Schuller, born in Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath, 1972 1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) 1949 Nana Alexandria, U.S.S.R., International Woman's Chess Grandmaster, 1976 1949 Anita Louis, U.S. singer, Soul Children, I'll Be the Other Woman 1949 Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman U.S. ambassador 1949 Shulamit Ran, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for Symphony, 1990 1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US 1949 Richard Gere, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman 1949 Lindsay Wagner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks 1949 Meryl Streep, born in New Jersey, actress, French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice 1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of U.S. 1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India) 1948 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in 1948 Jeremy Irons, England, actor, French Lieutenant's Woman 1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 1948 Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st U.S. woman Olympic slalom champion 1947 Carlos Santana, born in Mexico, rock guitarist, Santana-Black Magic Woman 1947 1st broadcast of 1st U.S. TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" 1946 Dawn Steel, born in America, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction' 1946 "St. Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 113 performances 1946 Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi 1946 "St. Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 113 performances 1946 Hector Babenco, director, Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1945 Bob Marley, reggae musician and singer, Whalers-No Woman 1945 Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype' 1944 Jill Clayburgh, born in New York City, actress, Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough 1944 Bobby Womack, Cleveland, R&B singer and guitarist, Woman's Got to Have It 1944 Kelly Bishop, CO, actress, Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn 1943 Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76 1943 Nikki Giovanni, poet, LHJ Woman of the Year 1973 1943 Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton/singer, A Woman's Touch 1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium 1943 Barbara Acklin, Allen, Chicago, R&B singer, Love Makes a Woman 1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized 1942 Gary Puckett, vocalist, & Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl 1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army 1942 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City 1941 Helen Reddy, born in Melbourne, Australia, rock vocalist, I Am Woman 1941 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico 1940 Percy Sledge, soul singer, When A Man Loves A Woman 1940 Delbert McClinton, Lubbock, Texas, singer, Gonna Find a Good Woman 1940 Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago 1940 Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer, 1st woman Top Fuel champ 1940 Raul Julia, actor, Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1940 Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar 1939 Junko Tabei, Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest 1939 Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tennessee, rock vocalist, Impressions-Gypsy Woman 1939 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City 1939 Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight 1939 [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80 1939 Ed Bernard, born in Philadelphia, actor, Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow 1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich, born in Miami, Florida, 1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982 1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school 1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia 1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm) 1938 Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49 1938 Michael Murphy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unmarried Woman 1938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indianapolis 500 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1937 Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero 1937 Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4) 1937 Mirabel Morgan, author, Total Woman 1937 Gail Godwin, U.S., author, Perfectionists, Odd Woman 1937 Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space, Vostok 6 1936 Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisconsin, actor, Det Pete Royster-Police Woman 1936 Yvette Vickers, KC, playmate, Jul 1959, actress, Attack of 50' Woman 1936 Roy Orbison, Vernon, Texas, rocker, Pretty Woman 1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) 1935 Esther Phillips, EM Jones, U.S. singer, When a Woman Loves a Man 1935 Charles Grodin, actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid 1935 Lyle Waggoner, Kansas City Kansas, actor, Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman 1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer 1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica 1934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport 1934 Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 1934 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, California, tennis, 1st woman grand slam, 1953 1934 Alan Bates, born in Allestree, England, actor, Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman 1934 Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka, South Dakota, LPGA golfer, 1950 Woman Athlete 1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands 1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic 1932 Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) 1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator 1931 Angie Dickinson, Kulm ND, actress, Police Woman 1931 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field 1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama 1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League 1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z 1930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent 1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls 1930 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati 1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) 1930 White woman win voting rights in South Africa 1930 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson) 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, born in Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice, 1981- 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman 1930 Allison Hayes, Washington, actress, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1929 Earl of Rosebery, born in Scotland, born Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery, Scottish nobleman, grandmother Hannah, Countess of Rosebury, was richest woman in England 1928 Earl Holliman, born in Delhi, Louisiana, actor, Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic 1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1928 Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in New York and California 1928 Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair 1927 Midge Decter, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, anti woman's lib, Liberated Woman... 1926 Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds 1926 New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 1926 Val Bisoglio, New York City, actor, Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME 1926 John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1926 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life' 1925 Marty Robbins, born in Glendale, Arizona, singer, Devil Woman, I Walk Alone 1925 Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author, Afternoon of a Good Woman 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA 1924 Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin 1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) 1924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador 1924 Dolores Gray, born in Chicago, Illinois, singer and actress, Designing Woman, Kismet 1924 Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st U.S. black woman cabinet member 1924 Kobo Abe, born in Tokyo, Japan, playwright, Woman, the Dunes 1923 Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears 1923 Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress 1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service 1922 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) 1922 Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate 1922 Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar 1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1921 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track and field association) 1921 Mildred Davenport, Wyoming, actress, Tarzan and Leopard Woman 1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1920 1st U.S. woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey) 1920 William D Howells, U.S. author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage 1919 Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980 1918 Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics 1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California 1918 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament 1916 Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, elected 1st woman Representative 1916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM, Sri Lanka, 1960..77 1915 John P. W. Meefout, Dutch sculptor, Laying Woman 1915 Anna van Beers, Graeve, actress, A Woman like Eve 1915 Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in New York City 1915 Lardner Ring, Jr., Chicago, screenwriter, Woman of the Year 1915 Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses 1914 Marion Ladewig, Michigan, bowler, 9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63 1914 Martha Scott, born in Jamesport, Missouri, actress, Dallas, Bionic Woman, Our Town 1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane 1913 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote 1913 National Woman's Party forms 1912 Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City 1912 Willard Parker, New York City, actor, Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman 1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot 1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse 1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage 1911 1st International Woman's Day 1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight 1910 William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies 1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine 1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89 1910 Michael Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, director/writer/actor, Woman of the Year 1909 Jean Batten, New Zealand air pioneer, 1st woman to fly solo England to Australia 1908 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London 1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam 1908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights 1907 Edgar Barrier, born in New York, actor, Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered 1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers 1904 Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City 1903 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, 1st woman in Royal Society 1902 Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet 1901 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) 1901 Carroll Nye, born in Canton, Ohio, actress, Lawless Woman 1900 Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange 1899 Vera Reynolds, Richmond, Virginia, silent screen actress, Lawless Woman 1899 C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1899 Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies, Islam and Woman 1899 Horatio Alger, Jr., Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies 1899 Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution 1898 Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress, John Meade's Woman 1898 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor, Bathing Woman, Orleans 1898 Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviator, 1st woman to solo Atlantic 1898 Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 1897 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah) 1896 Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens) 1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 1895 Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor, Son of Lassie, Spider Woman 1893 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) 1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief 1891 Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University 1889 Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor, Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid 1889 Maria Mitchell, 1st U.S. woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70 1889 Pearl White, Victoria, U.S. actress/stunt woman, Perils of Pauline 1887 May Sutton Bundy, U.S., 1st U.S. woman to win Wimbledon, U.S. 1904 1887 Nadia Boulanger, conductor, 1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony 1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas) 1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party 1884 Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter 1882 Gaston Lachaise, U.S. sculptor, Standing Woman 1881 Lois Weber, 1st U.S. woman film director, What Do Men Want? 1880 Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies 1880 Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to U.S. Congress, Rep-Montana 1880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor 1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate 1876 Mary R. Beard, born in Indianapolis, historian, Woman as a Force in History 1876 Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a Governor, Wyoming, 1925-27 1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention 1875 Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman, died at 122 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland 1874 Carrie White, oldest U.S. woman, dies Nov 1990 at 116 1873 Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31 1873 Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member 1872 Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall 1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University 1871 Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins 1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school 1870 Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet 1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president 1869 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) 1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress 1868 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle 1867 Hobart Bosworth, born in Marietta, Ohio, actor, Woman of Affairs, Big Parade 1867 Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist 1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st U.S. woman to earn a DDS degree 1864 Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree 1864 Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree 1862 Florence Bascom, U.S., 1st American woman PhD 1862 General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores 1861 Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor, Seated Woman 1856 Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st U.S. woman architect 1855 Olive Schreiner, South African writer, Portrait of a South African Woman 1853 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1850 Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College 1849 Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in U.S. to receive medical degree 1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger 1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US 1848 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston) 1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York 1848 C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer, Woman Who Did 1846 1st U.S. woman telegrapher, Sarah G. Bagley, Lowell, Mass 1845 Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association 1844 Mary Cassatt, U.S., Impressionist painter, Woman Bathing 1844 Anatole France, writer, Thais, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921 1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician 1839 Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1836 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England, Aldeburgh 1836 Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st U.S. woman grad of a pharmacy college 1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st U.S. woman dentist, 1866 1829 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon 1824 William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, Woman in White 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician 1820 Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Massachusetts, woman's suffragette 1818 Lucy Blackwell-Stone, U.S. abolitionist, U.S. Woman's Suffrage Association 1818 Maria Mitchell, 1st U.S. woman astronomer on Nantucket Island 1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw) 1805 Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America 1804 Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England) 1786 Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) 1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 1784 Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon 1766 Madame de Stael, Swiss-French belle-lettrist, An Extraordinary Woman 1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer 1726 Louise-Florence Depinay, born in France, writer, Woman, Man and 2 Kingdoms 1693 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) 1647 Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass 1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England 1527 Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic |
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