Latest posts tagged with #SheIsTheFirst on Bluesky
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
2/24/1864 — Rebecca Lee Crumpler is awarded a doctoral degree from the New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts, making her the very first African-American woman to earn a medical degree #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #MedSky #HistMed #woc #SheIsTheFirst #TDIH
Crystal Bird Fauset
1/28/1938 — Crystal Bird Fauset is elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature, she becomes the first African American female state legislator. She was later appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a Civil Defense race relations advisor #womenshistory #gov #woc #BHM #PolSky #SheIsTheFirst
Margaret Chase Smith
1/27/1964 — Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman elected to both the U.S. House & the U.S. Senate (Maine-R), announces her candidacy for President of the United States at a luncheon of the Women’s National Press Club luncheon #womenshistory #Maine #gov #SheIsTheFirst #PolSky
Jeannette Rankin For Congress postcard
11/7/1916 — Jeanette Pickering Rankin, American suffragist, peace activist, reformer, becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress, Montana-R (1917-19) #womenshistory #gov #law #SheIsTheFirst #TDIH
Annie Edson Taylor standing next to her barrel labeled "Queen of the Mist" with a kitten atop.
10/24/1901 — Annie Edson Taylor (The Queen of the Mist), American teacher, adventurer, becomes the first person go over Niagara Falls and live. In need of money and seeking fame she thought up the attention-getting stunt; she did not know how to swim #womenshistory #SheIsTheFirst #DareDevil #TDIH
10/13/1939 — Evelyn “Pinky” Kilgore, American pioneer aviator, becomes the first woman to receive a flight instructor’s license from the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Also an aviation instructor at the Tri-City Airport in Southern California #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #aviation #SheIsTheFirst #OTD
Esther Morris
8/17/1870 — Esther Morris becomes the first female magistrate in the United States, she is appointed Justice of the Peace for South Pass City, Wyoming #womenshistory #SheIsTheFirst #gov #law #OTD
Eleanor Annie Lamson looking through telescope
7/20/1900 — Eleanor Annie Lamson becomes the first female astronomer to be hired by the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, District of Columbia #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #SheIsTheFirst #Navy #military #OTD #TDIH
Geraldine Lois Fredritz aka Jerrie Mock receiving award
Jerrie Mock | Spirt Of Columbus
5/4/1964 — Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly around the world solo, is honored with the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency’s Decoration for Exceptional Service for her record-setting 29 day solo flight around the world in a single engine airplane #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SheIsTheFirst #aviation #OTD
Oonah Keogh
5/2/1901 — b. Oonah Keogh, Irish investor, stockbroker. The first woman to join the Dublin Stock Exchange in Dublin, Ireland (1925). Likely the first female stockbroker worldwide to be accredited on a national exchange #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SheIsTheFirst #stockmarkets #OTD
Annie Oakley | Baker’s Art Gallery | Columbus, Ohio
MIss Annie Oakley, the Peerless Lady Wing-Shot | Buffalo Bill's Wild West poster
4/24/1885 — Annie Oakley, legendary sharpshooter and America’s first female superstar, is hired by Nate Salsbury to join Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show #womenshistory #HERstory #SheIsTheFirst #sharpshooter #OTD
#HappyEaster | U.S. Patent for the First Bra | #WomenInSTEM #SheIsTheFirst #textiles #garments #HERstory #USPTO #patents
4/17/1964 — Jerrie Mock, American aviator, becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world. At age 38, she flew a single engine Cessna 180 which she named “Spirit of Columbus”; the 23k mile, 29 day flight started and ended in Columbus, Ohio #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SheIsTheFirst #aviation
Susan Hayhurst
3/16/1883 — Susan Hayhurst, already a pioneer American female physician, becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmaceutical college in the United States, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in Pennsylvania #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #SheIsTheFirst #OTD
Cover of "Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" by Harriet E. Wilson
3/15/1825 — b. Harriet E. Wilson, American author. Wrote the important early African-American literary work, “Our Nig: Sketches From the Life of a Free Black”, Boston, Mass (1858). She was the first Af-Am to publish a novel in the U.S. #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackSky #SheIsTheFirst #woc #OTD
Bertha Knight Landes
3/9/1926 — Bertha Knight Landes is elected the first woman mayor of Seattle, Washington (1926-28); she becomes the first female executive of a major city in the United States. Jenny Durkan was elected the second female mayor of Seattle (2017) #WomensHistoryMonth #GovSky #LawSky #SheIsTheFirst #OTD
Berthe Wilson seated in Red and White robes
3/4/1982 — Bertha Wernham Wilson CC FRSC, Scottish-Canadian jurist and lawyer becomes the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada #WomensHistoryMonth #womenshistory #SheIsTheFirst #OTD | #Canada #law #gov
Ida Gray Nelson photo portrait
3/4/1867 — b. Ida Gray Nelson, American dentist, dental educator. The first African-American woman to earn a doctor of dental surgery degree (DDS); mentored other black women into the dental profession #WomensHistoryMonth #BHM2025 #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #woc #SheIsTheFirst #OTD
3/2/1860 — b. Suzanna Madora Salter, American government official, temperance leader, activist. The first female mayor in the United States, mayor of Argonia, Kansas; and the first woman elected to any political office in the U.S. (1887) #WomensHistoryMonth #womenshistory #OTD #SheIsTheFirst #gov
Melinda Gates is the first woman to give away more than $40 billion to charity #SheIsTheFirst http://ti.me/2vH7dcb
Sylvia Earle is the first woman to become chief scientist of the NOAA #SheIsTheFirst http://ti.me/2vH6fNf
See the full list of groundbreaking women featured in TIME's Firsts series #SheIsTheFirst http://ti.me/2vtSyWF
Watch the trailer for @TIME 'Firsts,' interviews with 45 pioneering women, going live Sept. 7 #SheIsTheFirst
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