Female - Notable Historical Events
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Female - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1656-09-22 |
All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) |
1762-08-22 |
1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury |
1784-06-04 |
Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist. |
1805-11-18 |
30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America |
1838-07-04 |
Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: Mining pit floods during a rainstorm drowning 26 children, leads to the 1842 commission on the employment of children and women in mines which resulted in the banning of female and child labour underground |
1838-08-23 |
Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class |
1848-11-23 |
Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston |
1850-03-11 |
Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) |
1852-02-11 |
1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) |
1865-11-11 |
Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor |
1870-02-17 |
Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge |
1870-03-17 |
Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary |
1870-06-30 |
Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate |
1876-03-16 |
Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) |
1878-01-10 |
US Senate proposes female suffrage |
1878-09-01 |
1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) |
1879-03-03 |
1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) |
1882-01-17 |
1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office |
1884-09-20 |
Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP |
1890-01-02 |
Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer |
1890-07-10 |
Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage) |
1893-07-28 |
A petition demanding women's suffrage is delivered to the New Zealand parliament; it is signed by more 25,000 women, about a 5th of the entire adult European female population |
1893-11-07 |
US State Colorado accepts female suffrage |
1894-02-05 |
Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms |
1895-06-20 |
1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) from an American University |
1895-11-05 |
US state Utah accepts female suffrage |
1896-10-30 |
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator |
1896-11-03 |
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator |
1901-02-02 |
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
1902-07-12 |
Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage |
1903-12-09 |
Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage |
1907-06-14 |
Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections |
1908-02-12 |
Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female |
1909-06-09 |
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the USA, driving a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days with three non-driving female companions. |
1910-03-08 |
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot |
1910-09-12 |
World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) |
1910-09-18 |
25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage |
1910-11-06 |
SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage |
1911-04-30 |
Portugal approves female suffrage |
1912-11-05 |
Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage |
1913-03-03 |
Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC |
1913-08-16 |
Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students. |
1913-09-16 |
1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage |
1914-09-01 |
The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. |
1916-04-08 |
Norway approves active & passive female suffrage |
1916-06-24 |
Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract. |
1916-10-17 |
Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage |
1916-11-05 |
Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage |
1917-02-10 |
Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor |
1917-03-21 |
Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer |
1919-09-18 |
Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage |
1919-09-27 |
Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members |
1919-11-28 |
US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons |
1919-12-01 |
Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament |
1919-12-30 |
Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student. |
1921-02-27 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
1922-08-04 |
Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team |
1922-11-21 |
Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator |
1923-02-16 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
1924-02-18 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
1924-11-04 |
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming) |
1925-01-08 |
1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas |
1925-02-25 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
1926-10-03 |
Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22) |
1927-02-11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
1929-06-07 |
Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor) |
1929-12-06 |
Turkey introduces female suffrage |
1931-04-01 |
Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball |
1931-10-01 |
Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage |
1933-01-03 |
Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. |
1933-02-28 |
1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor |
1933-05-03 |
1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office |
1934-03-20 |
Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers |
1934-12-22 |
Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games |
1935-02-09 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1936-02-14 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1937-02-06 |
K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer |
1937-02-13 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1938-02-26 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
1939-01-21 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
1939-07-22 |
Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge (NY) |
1940-02-10 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
1941-02-01 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
1941-11-12 |
Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania |
1942-02-21 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
1942-06-21 |
Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) |
1944-02-26 |
1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed |
1948-04-03 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
1948-07-07 |
6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy |
1949-06-03 |
GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer |
1951-02-04 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer |
1951-09-20 |
Swiss males votes against female suffrage |
1953-02-01 |
Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state |
1953-10-14 |
1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service |
1953-11-18 |
Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage |
1955-03-16 |
Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge |
1955-04-02 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
1956-02-27 |
Female suffrage in Egypt |
1957-08-18 |
Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½") |
1958-08-23 |
Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours |
1959-02-01 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
1960-01-30 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
1960-07-20 |
Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon |
1960-09-07 |
Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) |
1961-01-29 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen |
1961-12-04 |
The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain |
1961-12-18 |
For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year |
1962-02-04 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles |
1962-12-03 |
Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge |
1963-02-10 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon |
1963-02-15 |
1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) |
1964-02-12 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1964-05-23 |
Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) |
1964-07-21 |
Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) |
1964-11-12 |
Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH |
1964-12-25 |
George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans |
1965-02-13 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1965-05-19 |
Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg) |
1965-08-12 |
Elizabeth Lane becomes first female British supreme court justice |
1965-11-04 |
Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah |
1966-01-29 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1966-06-26 |
Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland |
1966-11-20 |
Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage |
1967-01-21 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1967-05-06 |
Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) |
1967-09-16 |
Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26) |
1968-01-20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1969-02-01 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1969-02-17 |
Golda Meir sworn in as the first female prime minister of Israel |
1969-02-22 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track |
1969-09-14 |
Male voters of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage |
1970-02-07 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1970-02-28 |
Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53) |
1970-05-15 |
Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals |
1970-07-15 |
Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship |
1971-01-31 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1971-05-09 |
Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) |
1971-08-31 |
Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) |
1971-10-03 |
Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 |
1971-10-23 |
Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast |
1972-01-04 |
Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London. |
1972-01-06 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1972-06-03 |
1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25 |
1972-06-25 |
Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball |
1972-09-02 |
Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) |
1973-01-27 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1973-02-11 |
1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) |
1973-03-01 |
Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
1973-05-04 |
1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine |
1974-02-09 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
1974-07-29 |
Episcopal Church ordained female priests |
1974-10-27 |
Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) |
1974-12-01 |
Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) |
1975-02-02 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
1975-04-21 |
Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24) |
1975-05-03 |
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) |
1976-01-11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
1976-03-09 |
1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy |
1976-04-22 |
Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor |
1976-06-13 |
Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04) |
1977-02-05 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1977-05-01 |
Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) |
1977-09-10 |
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) |
1978-02-12 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1978-05-11 |
Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps |
1978-05-12 |
US Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female |
1978-08-20 |
Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) |
1978-09-10 |
Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30") |
1978-10-06 |
Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago) |
1978-10-22 |
Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) |
1978-12-04 |
Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor |
1979-02-03 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1979-03-09 |
Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters |
1979-11-17 |
Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black & female US hostages |
1980-01-20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1980-06-27 |
1st female state police graduates (NJ) |
1981-01-02 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65) |
1981-01-03 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91) |
1981-02-08 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak |
1981-03-29 |
Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m |
1981-04-27 |
1st female soccer official is hired by NASL |
1981-05-04 |
Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) |
1981-09-21 |
Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice |
1981-09-25 |
Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice |
1982-01-30 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
1982-02-16 |
Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta |
1983-02-03 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
1983-02-07 |
1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole) |
1983-04-17 |
Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) |
1983-05-14 |
Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) |
1983-06-08 |
Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) |
1983-11-08 |
Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky |
1983-12-13 |
Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor |
1984-01-20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
1984-04-18 |
Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) |
1984-07-19 |
1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) |
1985-02-01 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin |
1985-04-13 |
Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) |
1985-09-07 |
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83) |
1986-01-31 |
Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart |
1986-02-07 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
1986-06-18 |
Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) |
1986-08-26 |
Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38) |
1987-01-03 |
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin |
1987-02-06 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
1987-04-07 |
National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC |
1987-04-11 |
Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) |
1987-07-02 |
Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. |
1987-08-18 |
Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) |
1987-08-21 |
Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91) |
1987-09-22 |
Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) |
1987-11-15 |
Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) |
1987-12-06 |
Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) |
1988-01-08 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
1988-02-19 |
Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) |
1988-02-23 |
Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94) |
1988-03-06 |
Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) |
1988-03-26 |
Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) |
1988-04-23 |
Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) |
1988-09-23 |
Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) |
1988-12-01 |
Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan) |
1989-01-29 |
Episcopal Church of the United States appoints Barbara Harris as its first female bishop |
1989-02-11 |
Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) |
1989-02-11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
1989-02-12 |
Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church |
1989-03-17 |
Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade |
1989-04-15 |
Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48) |
1989-07-10 |
Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) |
1989-08-20 |
Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22) |
1989-08-25 |
Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary. |
1989-11-07 |
NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman) |
1990-01-26 |
Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) |
1990-02-10 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
1990-03-09 |
Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general |
1990-06-29 |
World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed, New Zealand |
1990-08-27 |
Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27) |
1990-11-07 |
Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland |
1991-01-06 |
Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) |
1991-01-27 |
Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU |
1991-02-16 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding |
1991-04-21 |
Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) |
1991-05-15 |
Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier |
1991-08-25 |
Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53) |
1991-09-10 |
Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs) |
1991-11-24 |
Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year |
1992-01-11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi |
1992-02-09 |
Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) |
1992-03-02 |
Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) |
1992-03-10 |
Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) |
1992-03-28 |
Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31) |
1992-04-02 |
Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns |
1992-06-14 |
Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate |
1992-06-20 |
Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Balt Orioles) |
1992-07-30 |
Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) |
1992-09-23 |
1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period |
1992-11-11 |
The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests |
1993-01-23 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan |
1993-06-14 |
Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey |
1994-01-07 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding |
1994-04-03 |
1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced |
1994-05-08 |
Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game |
1994-07-08 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) |
1994-07-10 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36) |
1994-09-06 |
Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) |
1994-09-10 |
Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke |
1994-09-11 |
Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle |
1994-10-07 |
Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57) |
1994-11-09 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka |
1995-01-13 |
America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race |
1995-02-04 |
Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77) |
1995-02-05 |
Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 |
1995-02-09 |
Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) |
1995-02-10 |
Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) |
1995-02-10 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek |
1995-02-12 |
Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec) |
1995-02-12 |
Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) |
1995-02-12 |
Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec) |
1995-03-19 |
Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450) |
1996-01-20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
1996-01-27 |
Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop |
1997-02-15 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski |
1997-05-22 |
Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial. |
1997-05-27 |
1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole |
1998-01-11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
1998-02-01 |
Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. |
1998-02-08 |
1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 |
1999-05-08 |
Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college. |
1999-11-27 |
The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. |
2001-01-02 |
Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico. |
2001-06-10 |
Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa |
2002-04-12 |
Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. |
2004-08-24 |
89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya. |
2005-11-22 |
Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. |
2006-01-16 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
2006-03-11 |
Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. |
2007-01-04 |
The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. |
2007-10-29 |
Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
2008-04-20 |
Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. |
2008-12-08 |
Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales. |
2009-02-01 |
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world. |
2009-07-06 |
Jadranka Kosor became first female Prime minister of Croatia. |
2010-03-29 |
Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40. |
2012-06-24 |
Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time |
2012-09-02 |
A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt |
2012-09-04 |
Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec |
2012-09-16 |
8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan |
2012-12-19 |
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation's first female president |
2013-12-10 |
Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company |
2014-02-22 |
Marit Bjørgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals |
2014-07-04 |
Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors |
2015-11-03 |
Michelle Payne becomes first female jockey to win Melbourne Cup |
2015-12-22 |
NY cop, female Air Force major among 6 US troops killed in Afghan attack |
2016-02-11 |
Female suicide bombers kill 58 in a Nigerian camp meant to be a safe haven |
2016-05-20 |
Muirfield Golf Club ban on female members upheld |
2016-11-19 |
Soul singer Sharon Jones, the 'female James Brown,' dead at 60 |
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Female - Notable Birthdays
Female - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1715-11-13 |
Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor (d.1762) |
1759-04-27 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader) |
1795-07-25 |
James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army) |
1804-07-01 |
George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro) |
1825-05-20 |
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister) |
1829-05-06 |
Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England |
1838-02-14 |
Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" |
1840-01-21 |
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, Hastings, English Physician and feminist who was one of the first female medical students at a British university |
1848-02-05 |
Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west) |
1854-02-09 |
Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician |
1860-03-02 |
Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961) |
1864-01-15 |
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Grafton West Virginia, early female photographer |
1866-03-17 |
Alice Austen, The Female Closet |
1867-12-23 |
Sarah Breedlove, Delta Louisiana, (Madam C. J. Walker), daughter of slaves & 1st US female self-made millionaire (hair straightner) |
1875-03-04 |
Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37) |
1878-09-16 |
Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes) |
1879-04-09 |
Thomas Meighan, Male and Female |
1883-01-04 |
Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof (Utrecht, 1917-52) |
1883-05-14 |
Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator |
1883-09-20 |
Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator |
1885-02-04 |
Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed) |
1886-06-04 |
Robert Cain, Male and Female |
1892-12-22 |
Rhy Darby, Male and Female |
1899-07-16 |
Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney (NY) |
1905-07-29 |
Thelma Todd, [Alison Loyd], Lawrence MA, actress (Dangerous Female) |
1905-08-09 |
Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice |
1906-06-22 |
Curt Barrett, The Female Artillery |
1907-01-14 |
Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician |
1907-06-06 |
Archie Dattelbaum, The Perfect Female |
1907-11-21 |
M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor |
1909-11-04 |
Evelyn Johnson, Corbin Kentucky, female pilot (most flying hours - 57,685), (d. 2012) |
1910-07-26 |
Henry Bederski, Female Trouble |
1912-02-16 |
Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch (female) author |
1912-11-29 |
Viola Smith, American drummer (one of the first professional female drummers) |
1913-11-22 |
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006) |
1920-03-05 |
Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop (Methodist) |
1920-10-26 |
T C Jones, PA, female impersonator |
1921-02-13 |
Ulvi Uraz, The Female Wolf |
1922-03-07 |
Selahattin Burçkin, The Female Monster |
1922-12-29 |
William Gaddis, Female Animal |
1925-08-15 |
Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section) |
1926-06-11 |
Manny Duran, The Female Response |
1926-07-11 |
Burt Kaiser, Female Jungle |
1930-06-12 |
Barbara Harris, 1st US Episcopal female bishop |
1930-07-01 |
Margaret A Brewer, American soldier, in Durand Michigan, first female General officer in US Marine Corps. (d.2013) |
1931-10-24 |
Jeanne Avery, Female Animal |
1933-06-22 |
Dianne Feinstein, 1st female mayor of SF/(Sen-D-Ca) |
1935-08-26 |
Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female dem VP candidate (1984) |
1937-02-17 |
Shunya Itô, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 |
1937-02-22 |
Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx) |
1937-05-15 |
Madeleine Albright, Prague Czechoslovakia, American politician and diplomat and 1st female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001) |
1937-10-15 |
Karl-Heinz Schulze, Soft Skills for Female City Guides |
1937-12-09 |
A'leisha Brevard, The Female Bunch |
1939-01-25 |
Yuki Aresa, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 |
1939-01-29 |
Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich) |
1939-10-27 |
Ruby Wright, Female Trouble |
1939-9-11 |
John Lutz, Single White Female |
1941-07-19 |
Mumme, Female Trouble |
1941-08-26 |
Barbet Schroeder, director (Barfly, Single White Female, More) |
1941-11-22 |
Terry Stafford, The Female Bunch |
1941-12-09 |
Kayoko Shiraishi, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 |
1943-05-08 |
Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille) |
1945-06-29 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga, first female President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005) |
1945-12-02 |
Charles Watson, Female Trouble |
1946-06-29 |
Alice Arno, Female Vampire |
1947-03-10 |
[Avril] Kim Campbell, Port Alberni British Columbia, Canada's 1st female and 19th Prime Minister (1993 ) |
1947-07-23 |
Jopi Burnama, Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters |
1948-02-01 |
Yukie Kagawa, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 |
1948-10-22 |
Eiko Yanami, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 |
1949-03-08 |
Cari Dominguez, Clinton vs. Warren; Hobby Lobby; Female Genital Mutilation |
1951-05-16 |
Sofi Zanninou, Female Company |
1951-05-30 |
Stephen Tobolowsky, Tx, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise) |
1952-10-24 |
Yôko Natsuki, New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X |
1953-06-21 |
Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan) |
1954-06-25 |
Lina Romay, Female Vampire |
1957-01-17 |
Leslie A. Sank, Single White Female |
1958-07-14 |
Eva Arnaz, Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters |
1958-12-02 |
Mina Asami, Female Prisoner: Cage |
1961-07-02 |
Pat Dufficy, Westerly RI, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1961-12-16 |
Ron Athey, Single White Female |
1962-02-05 |
Jennifer Jason Leigh [Morrow], Los Angeles, California, American actress (Single White Female, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle) |
1963-07-07 |
Bob Dobiesz, Apocalypse Female Warriors |
1963-07-24 |
Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93) |
1963-08-31 |
Elizabeth Lee, Female Reporter |
1963-11-15 |
Michele McAnany, Los Angeles California, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1964-01-27 |
Bridget Fonda, Los Angeles California, actress (Scandal, Single White Female) |
1965-07-14 |
Reina Olea, female jockey |
1965-12-13 |
Stacy Sunny, San Bernadino Ca, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1967-05-12 |
Cara Coughenour, Sioux City IA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1968-05-01 |
Denise Masino, American Female Bodybuilder |
1968-06-07 |
Melissa Coombes, San Gabriel CA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1969-07-13 |
Kim Braatz, Santa Ana California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1969-11-18 |
Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee Fla, female pitcher (Silver Bullets) |
1969-12-22 |
Marcie Aguilar, Tucson AZ, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1970-03-17 |
Shannan Mitchem, Decatur GA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1970-05-20 |
Missy Cress, Burbank CA, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1970-10-18 |
Camille Spitaleri, Mountain View Ca, female infielder (Silver Bullets) |
1970-11-12 |
Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler |
1971-01-17 |
Ann Wolfe, female boxer |
1971-04-25 |
Pam Schaffrath, Chicago IL, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1971-06-29 |
Wendee Espinosa, Stockton California, female outfielder (Silver Bullets) |
1971-08-01 |
Shae Sloan, Huntsville TX, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1971-12-17 |
Alyson Habetz, Crowley LA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1972-02-24 |
Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay) |
1972-07-19 |
Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1972-09-27 |
Laurie Shepard, Cordele, GA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1972-10-18 |
Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder (Silver Bullets) |
1973-02-05 |
Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance CA, female infielder (Silver Bullets) |
1973-07-11 |
Christine Monge, SF California, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1974-04-05 |
Colette Nelson, Female Bodybuilders |
1974-06-02 |
Tammy Holmes, Berkeley California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets) |
1974-09-12 |
Caroline Aigle, First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007) |
1974-12-09 |
Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach |
1976-06-25 |
Dubravka Vukotić, female actor, Montenegro, Yugoslavia |
1976-11-22 |
Regina Halmich, German female boxer |
1977-03-14 |
Aki Hoshino, Female Prisoner 1316 |
1977-07-20 |
Tracey McCall, Single White Female 2: The Psycho |
1978-08-16 |
Fu Mingxia, Chinese female diver |
1978-09-30 |
Candice Michelle, American female wrestler |
1979-02-15 |
Louise Parker, The Ultimate Series in Real Female Orgasms: Louise |
1979-10-13 |
Katerina Nova, Female Liaisons |
1982-08-07 |
Clément Chagot, Female Agents |
1982-08-11 |
Ren Suzuki, Female Prisoner 1316 |
1984-02-27 |
Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer |
1984-05-16 |
Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler |
1984-11-14 |
Lisa De Vanna, Australian female footballer |
1985-08-13 |
Lacey Brown, Top 8 Female Semifinalists Perform |
1987-03-11 |
Wes Tate, Queen's Friday Female Panel Starring Lisa Ling, Katherine Schwarzenegger and More. Plus, Celebrity Chef, Gordon Ramsay! |
1990-03-21 |
Katelyn Epperly, Top 8 Female Semifinalists Perform |
Female - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1990-01-26 |
Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) |
1996-11-30 |
Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey |
2005-09-02 |
"Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (43) weds director and writer Noah Baumbach (36) in Los Angeles |
Female - Notable Divorces
Female - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2007-04-24 |
Recording artist and the most-awarded female act of all-time Whitney Houston (43) divorces R&B singer-songwriter Bobby Brown (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage |
2010-11-15 |
"Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (48) divorces writer Noah Baumbach (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage |
Female - Notable Deaths
Female - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1614-08-21 |
Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer, dies at 54 |
1804-01-04 |
Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies |
1889-02-03 |
Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40 |
1902-04-02 |
Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814) |
1929-08-10 |
Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75 |
1930-04-01 |
Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies |
1936-07-08 |
Thomas Meighan, Male and Female |
1937-07-20 |
Mildred Reardon, Male and Female |
1938-06-23 |
Huey White, Female |
1945-08-22 |
Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist, inventor of the micro-electrode, and pioneering female scientist dies at 87 |
1948-07-31 |
Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70 |
1952-05-16 |
Frances Benjamin Johnston, early American female photgrapher |
1952-06-09 |
Alice Austen, The Female Closet |
1954-04-27 |
Robert Cain, Male and Female |
1959-12-30 |
Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76 |
1961-03-17 |
Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101 |
1961-11-24 |
Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67 |
1962-03-04 |
Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77 |
1965-05-14 |
Frances Perkins, US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83 |
1967-06-29 |
Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34 |
1970-01-25 |
Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70 |
1971-09-25 |
TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50 |
1974-03-21 |
Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies |
1978-11-15 |
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies of pancreatic cancer at 76 |
1980-08-08 |
Jacqueline Cochrane, US pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70 |
1986-10-28 |
Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74 |
1988-03-07 |
Divine, [Harris Milstead], female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies |
1988-04-19 |
Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901) |
1989-04-02 |
Curt Barrett, The Female Artillery |
1989-10-02 |
Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies |
1990-10-30 |
Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42 |
1992-09-23 |
Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61 |
1992-10-26 |
Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71 |
1993-01-18 |
M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85 |
1994-01-01 |
Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35 |
1994-04-06 |
Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated |
1996-03-17 |
Terry Stafford, The Female Bunch |
1997-10-18 |
Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70 |
1998-02-15 |
Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondent (Reuters), dies at 89 |
1998-12-16 |
William Gaddis, Female Animal |
2000-01-28 |
Roger Segure, Female Jungle |
2003-10-19 |
Henry Bederski, Female Trouble |
2004-05-16 |
Burt Kaiser, Female Jungle |
2006-01-02 |
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913) |
2006-10-30 |
Manny Duran, The Female Response |
2007-01-08 |
Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908) |
2008-06-13 |
Mumme, Female Trouble |
2009-01-04 |
Giselle Salandy, Trinidad & Tobago female boxer (b. 1987) |
2009-09-27 |
Ruby Wright, Female Trouble |
2012-02-10 |
Jeanne Avery, Female Animal |
2012-02-15 |
Lina Romay, Female Vampire |
2013-01-02 |
Margaret A. Brewer, American soldier and first female general officer in US Marine Corps dies aged 82 |
2016-03-28 |
Esther Herlitz, Israel's first female ambassador, dies aged 94 |
2017-12-22 |
June Rowlands, Toronto's first female mayor, dies aged 93 |
2018-01-11 |
Anna Mae Hays, the US military's first female general, dies aged 94 |
