When I was hired, I thought about all the gals that came before me, starting in 1911 with Harriet Quimby, the first woman to ever receive a pilot certificate in the US. Now, there are women in ...

She was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but she did it dressed as a man. For more than two years she traveled on a French naval vessel with linen bandages wrapped tightly around ...

Charlotta Spears Bass (1874-1969) one of the first African American women ... editor and publisher. Who had ever heard of a woman running a newspaper? It was the talk of the town.'. Although ...

The winning name for the queen was Janet Guthbee, a play on the name Janet Guthrie, the first woman racecar driver to ever qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Which is fitting, since the queen and ...

Alaska made the name change in 1975, and has been asking the federal government to do the same ever since ... In 1947, Barbara Washburn became the first woman to summit Denali, becoming an ...

In addition to being the first-ever woman drafted, Long was also coming straight out of high school, which wasn't allowed by the league at the time. Though the pick would be nullified by the ...

as did a wistful sense among some activists and leaders that this historic first still leaves women in second place — closer than ever to the Oval Office, sure, but not in it. Image Joseph R.