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 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 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 Rep and Sen (R-Me), 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
1989 Sextuplets, Paris, France, to a 29-year-old woman
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 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 VP 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 Czech 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 Assn
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 UK
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 Mt 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
1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"
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 Westerd˜k, 1st Dutch woman prof (Utrecht, 1917-52), 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 Assn, 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
1955 Michael Anthony, rock bassist/singer, Van Halen-Pretty Woman
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 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 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 "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
1944 Jill Clayburgh, born in New York City, actress, Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough
1944 Bobby Womack, Cleve, 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 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 Phila
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 Engl 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
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 Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
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
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 sect-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 assn)
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
1918 Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, Oly-4th-1936
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 (Rep-R-Mont) 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, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo 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. pres
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 Gen 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, US Woman's Suffrage Assn
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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