2015 Event At the 67th Annual Emmy Awards, Viola Davis is the first black woman to win outstanding lead drama actress; Jon Hamm wins outstanding lead drama actor, Peter Dinklage wins best supporting actor, and 'Game of Thrones' wins for outstanding drama 2014 Event Vice Admiral Michelle Janine Howard is promoted to 4-star admiral, becoming the first woman to achieve the highest rank in the U.S. Navy 2014 Event The world's oldest man, Alexander Imich, passes away at age 111 in New York; the oldest living woman is currently 116 years old and lives in Japan 2014 Event Doctors announce that a 3D-printed plastic skull was successfully used to replace part of a woman's real skull in an operation three months ago in the Dutch city of Utrecht 2014 Event Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to hold the post of chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve 2013 Event Investigators on the case of the October 2012 Kunsthal gallery theft of paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, discover paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son has been charged with the crime 2013 Event By winning the U.S. Open golf tournament, Korean Inbee Park, becomes the fourth woman to win three major championships in a season 2013 Event Savar, Bangladesh celebrates a woman found alive in the rubble 17 days after after a garment factory building collapsed and killed over 1,042 people 2013 Event France's former President, Nicolas Sarkozy is investigated over claims of illegal donations made by Liliane Bettencourt of L'Oreal, the country's richest woman 2013 Event In racing, Danica Patrick becomes the first woman at the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to win pole position 2012 Event Antisa Khvichava, a Georgian woman believed to be the oldest woman of all time, dies at age 132 2012 Event Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones 2012 Event Josefina Vazquez Mota is the first woman ever endorsed by a major Mexican party to run for President of Mexico 2011 Event In Bordeaux, France, and elderly woman becomes the first person to die from the recent e.coli outbreak 2011 Event After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia 2010 Event Rallies to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman facing execution for adultery, occur in Paris, New York City, Ottowa and elsewhere 2010 Event An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act 2010 Event Joran van der Sloot is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges of killing a Peruvian woman; he is suspected of killing Natalie Holloway in Aruba 2010 Event Solicitor General Elena Kagan is the youngest Justice and third woman nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States 2005 Event Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66 2003 Death Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97 2003 Death "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed 2003 Death Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide 2003 Death Althea Gibson, tennis/golf great, first black woman to win Wimbledon, dies at 76 2003 Death Kalpana Chawla, astronaut, first Asian Indian woman in space, payload specialist on the Columbia, STS-107, dies at 41 2000 Death Eva Morris, really old woman, Oldest person in 2000, dies at 114 2000 Death Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 2000 Death Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47 1998 Event Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed 1998 Event Michelangelo, "Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million 1998 Event 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 Death Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51 1997 Death Fenton Robinson, U.S. blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62 1997 Death Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82 1995 Death Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95 1995 Event After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel 1995 Event Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel 1995 Event "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 906 performances 1995 Death Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Representative and Senator R-Maine, dies at 97 1995 Event RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado 1995 Event 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV 1995 Event Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) 1995 Event Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly 1995 Event Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) 1993 Event Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey 1993 Event Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff 1993 Event 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win 1993 Event "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances 1993 Death Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83 1993 Event 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins 1992 Event 1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest 1992 Event Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman 1992 Event Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man 1991 Death Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 1991 Event Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches 1991 Event Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit 1991 Event Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher 1991 Event 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman 1990 Death Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 1990 Event Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ") 1990 Event Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) 1990 Event Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die 1990 Death Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73 1989 Event 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown 1989 Event 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris 1988 Death Roy Orbison, rocker (Pretty Woman), dies of a heart attack at 52 1988 Death Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52 1988 Event Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title 1988 Event Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34) 1988 Event Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop 1988 Event Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) 1988 Event Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21) 1988 Event Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) 1988 Event Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her 1988 Event Galina Chistyakova of U.S.S.R. sets long jump woman's record (24"8") 1988 Event Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone 1988 Event Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone 1987 Death O B McClinton, U.S. country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47 1987 Event Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10") 1987 Event Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt 1987 Event Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart 1987 Death Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36 1986 Event Marina Stepanova of U.S.S.R. sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94) 1986 Event Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London 1986 Event Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33) 1986 Event Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74) 1986 Event 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida 1986 Birthday 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 Event U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing 1986 Event Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York 1985 Event Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart 1985 Event Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters 1985 Event Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia 1985 Death Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67 1985 Event Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi 1985 Event Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 1985 Birthday Tina Majorino, actress, Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman 1984 Event John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" 1984 Death Margie V Barfield, U.S. murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years 1984 Event 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan 1984 Event Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st U.S. woman to walk in space 1984 Event Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad 1984 Event Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space 1984 Event Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate 1984 Event Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman 1983 Event Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel 1983 Event Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) 1983 Event Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia 1983 Event 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st U.S. woman 1983 Event "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances 1983 Event Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup 1982 Event Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space 1982 Event Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut 1982 Death Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17 1982 Death Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 1981 Death Melvyn Douglas, Hesselberg, actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80 1981 Event Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association 1981 Event Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony 1981 Event Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court 1981 Death Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st U.S. woman free balloon pilot, dies 1981 Event "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 770 performances 1981 Event John Lennon releases "Woman" in the United Kingdom 1980 Event Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks 1980 Event President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court 1980 Event Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in U.S.S.R. 1980 Event Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Year 1980 Event Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad 1980 Event French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1979 Death Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies 1979 Event Greta Weitz wins woman participation in New York City marathon (02:27:33) 1979 Event Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club 1979 Event Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman 1979 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain 1979 Event Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year 1979 Event Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1978 Birthday Estella Warren, born in Peterborough, Canada, actress, fashion model, Maxim Magazine's Hottest Woman 2000, Victoria's Secret model 1978 Event Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued 1978 Event 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 Event Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp 1977 Death Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101 1977 Death Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72 1977 Event Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship 1977 Event "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12 1977 Event Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 1977 Event Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one 1977 Event Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award 1977 Death Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 1977 Event Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play 1977 Event 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) 1976 Event Wonder Woman debuts on ABC 1976 Event Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball 1976 Event 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo 1976 Event "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) 1976 Event 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 Death Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43 1975 Event Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest 1975 Event Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit 1975 Death Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76 1974 Event Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov 1974 Event Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 1974 Death Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72 1973 Event Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman 1973 Death Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67 1973 Event 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 Event Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange 1972 Event Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee 1971 Death Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss 1971 Birthday Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel 1971 Event Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 1970 Event Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) 1970 Event 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) 1969 Death Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies 1969 Event Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" 1969 Death Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), dies at 34 1969 Death Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 1969 Event Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct 1969 Birthday Laura Leighton, actress, Sydney-Melrose Place, Other Woman 1969 Event Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah 1969 Event Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah) 1969 Event Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America 1968 Death Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 1968 Event Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame 1968 Birthday Celine Dion, born in Quebec, Canada, singer, I'm Your Woman 1967 Birthday Julia Roberts, born in Smyrna, Georgia, actress, Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman 1966 Event Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman 1966 Event Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon 1965 Birthday J. K. Rowling, born in Yate, England, author, 'Harry Potter' series of fantasy novels, listed as the 12th richest woman in Britain, 2008, with a net worth of $798 million 1965 Death Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75 1964 Event Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" 1964 Event Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro 1964 Event Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball 1964 Birthday Zeng Jinlian, born in Hunan, China, became tallest woman known, 2.46 m, 8'1" 1964 Death Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57 1964 Event Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world 1964 Event Geraldine Mock of U.S. is 1st woman to fly solo round the world 1964 Death Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75 1963 Death Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies 1963 Event Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State 1963 Birthday Carola Smit, Dutch singer, BZN-Bad bad woman 1963 Event Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth 1963 Event Valentina Tereshkova (U.S.S.R.) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 1963 Event Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut 1962 Birthday Laura San Giacoma, Danville, New Jersey, actress, Pretty Woman, Vital Signs 1962 Birthday Valerie Kaprisky, born in Paris, France, actress, Breathless, Public Woman 1962 Death Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90 1962 Birthday Ian Astbury, Merseyside, rock vocalist, Cult-Fire Woman 1962 Death Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62 1961 Death Johanna Westerdok, 1st Dutch woman professor (Utrecht, 1917 - 1952), dies at 78 1961 Death Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker, Jr., Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63 1961 Birthday Les Warner, rocker, Cult-Fire Woman 1961 Event 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell 1961 Death Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74 1960 Event In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM 1960 Birthday Kelly LeBrock, born in New York City, actress, Weird Science, Woman in Red 1959 Birthday Cathryn Harrison, born in London, England, actress, Old Woman in Black Moon 1959 Event "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1959 Death Gwili Andre, actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon), dies 1958 Death "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF) 1958 Birthday Cammie Lusko, born in Los Angeles, California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman 1957 Birthday Donna Adamek, Duarte California, bowler, BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81 1956 Death Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam and Woman), dies at 57 1956 Birthday Larry Blackmon, rocker, Cameo-Alligator Woman 1955 Event Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar 1955 Event Alabama woman bruised by a meteor 1955 Death Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging 1954 Birthday Sandra Cisneros, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, wrote, 'The House on Mango Street', 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories', a figure in Chicana literature 1954 Event 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala) 1953 Event Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami 1953 Birthday Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Event Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier 1953 Birthday Chaka Khan, born in Great Lakes, Illinois, rocker, Rufus-I am Every Woman 1953 Event 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 1952 Birthday Gloria Jean Watkins, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, born Gloria Jean Watkins, author, feminist, focus on race, class, gender, wrote, 'Ain't I a Woman? : Black Women and Feminism' 1952 Birthday Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat 1952 Event Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman 1952 Birthday Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist, Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman 1951 Event 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson 1951 Event Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes 1951 Birthday Lynda Carter, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Miss USA, 1973, actress, Wonder Woman 1951 Birthday Sally Kristen Ride, born in Los Angeles, California, 1st U.S. woman astronaut, STS-7, STS 41G 1951 Birthday Sally Ride, born in Encino, California, physicist, astronaut, first American woman crewmember in space on the Challenger, founded NASA's Office of Exploration 1950 Birthday Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator 1950 Birthday Mathieu Carriere, Hanover W Germany, actor, Bay Boy, Woman in Flames 1950 Birthday Heidi Schuller, born in Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath, 1972 1950 Event 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) 1949 Birthday Nana Alexandria, U.S.S.R., International Woman's Chess Grandmaster, 1976 1949 Birthday Anita Louis, U.S. singer, Soul Children, I'll Be the Other Woman 1949 Event Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman U.S. ambassador 1949 Birthday Shulamit Ran, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for Symphony, 1990 1949 Event Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US 1949 Birthday Richard Gere, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman 1949 Birthday Lindsay Wagner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks 1949 Birthday Meryl Streep, born in New Jersey, actress, French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice 1949 Event Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of U.S. 1949 Event 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India) 1948 Event 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in 1948 Birthday Jeremy Irons, England, actor, French Lieutenant's Woman 1948 Event Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 1948 Birthday Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber 1948 Event Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st U.S. woman Olympic slalom champion 1947 Birthday Carlos Santana, born in Mexico, rock guitarist, Santana-Black Magic Woman 1947 Event 1st broadcast of 1st U.S. TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" 1946 Birthday Dawn Steel, born in America, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction' 1946 Event "St. Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 113 performances 1946 Birthday Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi 1946 Event "St. Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 113 performances 1946 Birthday Hector Babenco, director, Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1945 Birthday 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 Birthday Jill Clayburgh, born in New York City, actress, Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough 1944 Birthday Bobby Womack, Cleveland, R&B singer and guitarist, Woman's Got to Have It 1944 Birthday Kelly Bishop, CO, actress, Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn 1943 Death Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76 1943 Birthday Nikki Giovanni, poet, LHJ Woman of the Year 1973 1943 Birthday Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton/singer, A Woman's Touch 1943 Event Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal 1943 Event Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium 1943 Birthday Barbara Acklin, Allen, Chicago, R&B singer, Love Makes a Woman 1942 Event Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized 1942 Birthday Gary Puckett, vocalist, & Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl 1942 Event Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Event Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army 1942 Event "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City 1941 Birthday Helen Reddy, born in Melbourne, Australia, rock vocalist, I Am Woman 1941 Event 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico 1940 Birthday Percy Sledge, soul singer, When A Man Loves A Woman 1940 Birthday Delbert McClinton, Lubbock, Texas, singer, Gonna Find a Good Woman 1940 Death Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65 1940 Event Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 1940 Event "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago 1940 Birthday Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer, 1st woman Top Fuel champ 1940 Birthday Raul Julia, actor, Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1940 Birthday Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives 1940 Event Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar 1939 Birthday Junko Tabei, Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest 1939 Birthday Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tennessee, rock vocalist, Impressions-Gypsy Woman 1939 Event 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City 1939 Event Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight 1939 Death [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80 1939 Birthday Ed Bernard, born in Philadelphia, actor, Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow 1939 Birthday Ellen Taafe Zwilich, born in Miami, Florida, 1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982 1939 Event Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school 1938 Event 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia 1938 Event 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 Death Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49 1938 Birthday Michael Murphy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unmarried Woman 1938 Birthday Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indianapolis 500 1938 Event Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1937 Birthday Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero 1937 Event Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4) 1937 Birthday Mirabel Morgan, author, Total Woman 1937 Birthday Gail Godwin, U.S., author, Perfectionists, Odd Woman 1937 Birthday Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space, Vostok 6 1936 Birthday Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisconsin, actor, Det Pete Royster-Police Woman 1936 Birthday Yvette Vickers, KC, playmate, Jul 1959, actress, Attack of 50' Woman 1936 Birthday Roy Orbison, Vernon, Texas, rocker, Pretty Woman 1936 Event Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) 1935 Birthday Esther Phillips, EM Jones, U.S. singer, When a Woman Loves a Man 1935 Birthday Charles Grodin, actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid 1935 Birthday Lyle Waggoner, Kansas City Kansas, actor, Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman 1935 Event Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer 1935 Event Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica 1934 Event Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport 1934 Death Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 1934 Birthday Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, California, tennis, 1st woman grand slam, 1953 1934 Birthday Alan Bates, born in Allestree, England, actor, Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman 1934 Birthday Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka, South Dakota, LPGA golfer, 1950 Woman Athlete 1933 Event Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member 1932 Event 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart 1932 Event 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands 1932 Event Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1932 Event Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic 1932 Event Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) 1931 Event Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Event Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator 1931 Birthday Angie Dickinson, Kulm ND, actress, Police Woman 1931 Event Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field 1931 Event Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama 1931 Event 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League 1930 Birthday Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z 1930 Event Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent 1930 Event 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 1930 Event 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls 1930 Event Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati 1930 Event 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) 1930 Event White woman win voting rights in South Africa 1930 Event 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson) 1930 Birthday Sandra Day O'Connor, born in Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice, 1981- 1930 Event Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman 1930 Birthday Allison Hayes, Washington, actress, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1929 Birthday 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 Birthday Earl Holliman, born in Delhi, Louisiana, actor, Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic 1928 Event 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland 1928 Event Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1928 Event Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1928 Birthday Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in New York and California 1928 Death Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair 1927 Birthday Midge Decter, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, anti woman's lib, Liberated Woman... 1926 Birthday Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds 1926 Event New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 1926 Birthday Val Bisoglio, New York City, actor, Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME 1926 Birthday John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman 1926 Event Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1926 Birthday Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life' 1925 Birthday Marty Robbins, born in Glendale, Arizona, singer, Devil Woman, I Walk Alone 1925 Birthday Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author, Afternoon of a Good Woman 1925 Event Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor 1925 Event Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA 1924 Birthday Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin 1924 Event Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) 1924 Event Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador 1924 Birthday Dolores Gray, born in Chicago, Illinois, singer and actress, Designing Woman, Kismet 1924 Birthday Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st U.S. black woman cabinet member 1924 Birthday Kobo Abe, born in Tokyo, Japan, playwright, Woman, the Dunes 1923 Birthday Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears 1923 Birthday Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress 1922 Event Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service 1922 Event 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) 1922 Event Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate 1922 Event Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar 1922 Event Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1921 Event Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track and field association) 1921 Birthday Mildred Davenport, Wyoming, actress, Tarzan and Leopard Woman 1921 Event Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1920 Event 1st U.S. woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey) 1920 Death William D Howells, U.S. author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 1920 Event 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1919 Event 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 Event Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage 1919 Birthday Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980 1918 Birthday Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics 1918 Event Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California 1918 Event SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament 1916 Event Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, elected 1st woman Representative 1916 Birthday Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM, Sri Lanka, 1960..77 1915 Birthday John P. W. Meefout, Dutch sculptor, Laying Woman 1915 Birthday Anna van Beers, Graeve, actress, A Woman like Eve 1915 Event Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in New York City 1915 Birthday Lardner Ring, Jr., Chicago, screenwriter, Woman of the Year 1915 Birthday Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses 1914 Birthday Marion Ladewig, Michigan, bowler, 9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63 1914 Birthday Martha Scott, born in Jamesport, Missouri, actress, Dallas, Bionic Woman, Our Town 1913 Event Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane 1913 Event British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote 1913 Event National Woman's Party forms 1912 Birthday Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister 1912 Event Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel 1912 Event Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City 1912 Birthday Willard Parker, New York City, actor, Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman 1911 Event Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot 1911 Event Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse 1911 Event Portugal approves woman suffrage 1911 Event 1st International Woman's Day 1910 Event Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight 1910 Death William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies 1910 Birthday Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine 1910 Death Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89 1910 Birthday Michael Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, director/writer/actor, Woman of the Year 1909 Birthday Jean Batten, New Zealand air pioneer, 1st woman to fly solo England to Australia 1908 Event James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London 1908 Event World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam 1908 Event New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1907 Event Norway restricts woman's voting rights 1907 Birthday Edgar Barrier, born in New York, actor, Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered 1907 Event Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1906 Event Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers 1904 Event Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City 1903 Birthday Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, 1st woman in Royal Society 1902 Birthday Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman 1902 Event China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet 1901 Event 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) 1901 Birthday Carroll Nye, born in Canton, Ohio, actress, Lawless Woman 1900 Birthday Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange 1899 Birthday Vera Reynolds, Richmond, Virginia, silent screen actress, Lawless Woman 1899 Death C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1899 Birthday Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies, Islam and Woman 1899 Death Horatio Alger, Jr., Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies 1899 Death Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution 1898 Birthday Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress, John Meade's Woman 1898 Birthday Paul Belmondo, French sculptor, Bathing Woman, Orleans 1898 Birthday Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviator, 1st woman to solo Atlantic 1898 Death Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 1897 Event M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah) 1896 Event Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens) 1895 Event 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 1893 Event 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued 1891 Event 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) 1891 Event Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief 1889 Birthday Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor, Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid 1889 Death Maria Mitchell, 1st U.S. woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70 1889 Birthday Pearl White, Victoria, U.S. actress/stunt woman, Perils of Pauline 1887 Birthday May Sutton Bundy, U.S., 1st U.S. woman to win Wimbledon, U.S. 1904 1887 Birthday Nadia Boulanger, conductor, 1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony 1887 Event Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas) 1885 Birthday Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party 1884 Birthday Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter 1882 Birthday Gaston Lachaise, U.S. sculptor, Standing Woman 1881 Birthday Lois Weber, 1st U.S. woman film director, What Do Men Want? 1880 Death Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies 1880 Birthday Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to U.S. Congress, Rep-Montana 1880 Birthday Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor 1878 Birthday Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate 1876 Birthday Mary R. Beard, born in Indianapolis, historian, Woman as a Force in History 1876 Birthday Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a Governor, Wyoming, 1925-27 1876 Event Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention 1875 Birthday Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman, died at 122 1874 Event National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland 1874 Birthday Carrie White, oldest U.S. woman, dies Nov 1990 at 116 1873 Birthday Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31 1873 Birthday Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member 1872 Event Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall 1872 Event Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president 1872 Event Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University 1871 Birthday Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins 1871 Event Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school 1870 Birthday Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet 1870 Event Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president 1869 Event American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) 1869 Event National Woman Suffrage Association forms 1869 Event Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress 1868 Birthday Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle 1867 Birthday Hobart Bosworth, born in Marietta, Ohio, actor, Woman of Affairs, Big Parade 1867 Birthday Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist 1866 Event Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st U.S. woman to earn a DDS degree 1864 Event Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree 1864 Birthday Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree 1862 Birthday Florence Bascom, U.S., 1st American woman PhD 1862 Event General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores 1861 Birthday Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor, Seated Woman 1856 Birthday Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st U.S. woman architect 1855 Birthday Olive Schreiner, South African writer, Portrait of a South African Woman 1853 Event 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 1850 Event Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1850 Birthday Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College 1849 Birthday Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman 1849 Event Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in U.S. to receive medical degree 1849 Birthday James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger 1849 Event Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US 1848 Event 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston) 1848 Event 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York 1848 Birthday C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer, Woman Who Did 1846 Event 1st U.S. woman telegrapher, Sarah G. Bagley, Lowell, Mass 1845 Birthday Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association 1844 Birthday Mary Cassatt, U.S., Impressionist painter, Woman Bathing 1844 Birthday Anatole France, writer, Thais, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921 1840 Birthday Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician 1839 Birthday Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1836 Birthday Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England, Aldeburgh 1836 Birthday Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad 1833 Event Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1833 Event Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st U.S. woman grad of a pharmacy college 1833 Birthday Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st U.S. woman dentist, 1866 1829 Birthday Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon 1824 Birthday William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, Woman in White 1821 Birthday Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician 1820 Birthday Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Massachusetts, woman's suffragette 1818 Birthday Lucy Blackwell-Stone, U.S. abolitionist, U.S. Woman's Suffrage Association 1818 Birthday Maria Mitchell, 1st U.S. woman astronomer on Nantucket Island 1809 Event Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw) 1805 Event Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America 1804 Event Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England) 1786 Death Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) 1785 Event Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 1784 Event Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon 1766 Birthday Madame de Stael, Swiss-French belle-lettrist, An Extraordinary Woman 1750 Birthday Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer 1726 Birthday Louise-Florence Depinay, born in France, writer, Woman, Man and 2 Kingdoms 1693 Event 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1656 Event All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) 1647 Death Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass 1553 Event Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England 1527 Death Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
