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- In 1982, Julie Krone at age 19, was the first woman jockey to win a major racing title.
- In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel.
- In 1975, Karren Stead at age 11, was the first girl to win the national soap box derby championship.
- In 1999, Natalia Toro at age 14, won top honors in the first Intel Science search.
- In 1994, Bonnie Blair, a speed skater, became the most-decorated American athlete in Winter Olympic history by winning five gold medals.
- In 1992, Madeleine Albright became the first female U.S. secretary of state.
- In 1995, Rebecca Marier became the first female valedictorian at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- In 1890, Helen Keller, deaf and blind since 19 months of age, learned to communicate through signs at age 10.
- In 1998, Melanie Wood, a high school senior, was the first American girl to compete in the International Mathematics Olympiad.
- In 1983, Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her pioneering work in genetics.
- In 1916, Jeanette Rankin, of Montana, is the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
- In 2006, Nancy Pelosi is the first woman in history to occupy the position of Speaker of the House.
- In 1921, American novelist Edith Wharton becomes the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She wins the award for The Age of Innocence.
- In 1932, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.
- In 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate.
- In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor is appointed as the first woman justice of the US Supreme Court.
- In 1983, Dr. Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space.
- In 1993, Janet Reno becomes the first woman U.S. attorney general.
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