Month: January 2018

Sue Hendrickson discovers the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Skelton found to date in South Dakota. The skeleton is called "Sue" in her honor and is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

Birthdays

January 31, 1973

Portia de Rossi American-Australian actress is born.

Birthdays

July 1, 1931

Leslie Caron Franco- American Actress is born.

Birthdays

May 26, 1951

Sally Ride American physicist and astronaut is born.

Birthdays

November 12, 1961

Nadia Comaneci Former Romanian Gymnast is born.

July

July 18, 1976

Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the Summer Olympics

Birthdays

June 26, 1892

Pearl S. Buck American Writer is born.

Birthdays

November 5, 1913

Vivian Leigh English film actress is born.

Birthdays

July 30, 1751

Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician, and the sister of Amadeus Mozart is born.

Birthdays

December 4, 1969

Victoria "Plum" Sykes English fashion Journalist is born.

Birthdays

December 10, 1830

Emily Dickinson American poet is born.

Birthdays

September 9, 1983

Lang Leav Author is born.

April

April 2, 1647

Maria Merian German Naturalist is born.

Birthdays

July 13, 1976

Diana Vishneva Russian Ballet dancer is born.

Birthdays

November 12, 1966

Gail Devers American athlete was born.

Birthdays

July 29, 1957

Virginia Marie Rometty CEO of IBM is born.

August

August 28, 1969

Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was born.

Birthdays

January 26, 1892

Bessie Coleman American Aviator was born.

Birthdays

January 25, 1981

Alicia Keys American Singer-Songwriter is born.

April

April 14, 1940

Julie Christie American Actress is born.

Birthdays

June 17, 1980

Venus Williams American Tennis Player is born.

Birthdays

December 24, 1961

Mary T. Barra CEO of General Motors Company is born.

Birthdays

January 21, 1922

Jade Snow Wong American Artist was born.

Birthdays

January 25, 1882

Virginia Woolf English writer was born.

Birthdays

June 1, 1926

Marilyn Monroe American Actress was born.

Birthdays

June 10, 1979

Svetlana Zakarova Russia Ballerina is born.

Birthdays

January 8, 1910

Galina Ulanova Russian Ballet Dancer is born.

Birthdays

February 12, 1908

Anna Pavlova Russian Ballerina was born.

Birthdays

January 19, 1992

Shawn Johnson American Gymnast is born.

Birthdays

October 18, 1956

Martina Navratilova American Tennis Player was born.

Birthdays

February 3, 1909

Simone Weil French Philosopher was born.

Birthdays

July 24, 1969

Jennifer Lopez American Singer was born.

Birthdays

May 21, 1944

Mary Robinson Former President of Ireland is born.

February

December 3, 1990

Mary Robinson becomes the first Female President of Ireland.

Birthdays

November 28, 1969

Sonia O'Sullivan Irish Athlete is born.

Birthdays

February 21, 1933

Nina Simone American Singer was born.

Birthdays

July 15, 1950

Arianna Huffington American - Greek Author born.

Birthdays

February 9, 1944

Alice Walker American Novelist was born.

Birthdays

February 18, 1931

Toni Morrison American Novelist was born.

Black History

October 7, 1993

Toni Morrison becomes the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Birthdays

October 30, 1939

Grace Slick American Singer-Songwriter is born.

Birthdays

July 16, 1862

Ida Wells-Barnett American Journalist born.

April

April 9, 1939

Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of approximately 75K after being denied the right to sing at Consititution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Birthdays

February 27, 1897

Marian Anderson American Contralto is born.

1970s

June 29, 1974

Isabel Peron is sworn as the first female President of Argentina.

Birthdays

September 20, 1958

Ursula Burns American Executive was born.

Birthdays

October 28, 1955

Indra Nooyi Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo was born.

Birthdays

June 23, 1940

Wilma Rudolph American Track and Field Athlete was born.

Birthdays

June 26, 1911

Babe Didrikson American Athlete was born.

Birthdays

March 25, 1971

Sheryl Swoopes American Basketball Player was born.

Birthdays

February 3, 1874

Gertrude Stein American novelist was born.

August

August 5, 1986

Paula Creamer American Professional Golfer born.

Birthdays

December 21, 1954

Chris Evert Tennis Player was born.

Birthdays

December 3, 1985

Amanda Seyfried American Actress was born.

Birthdays

January 17, 1922

Betty White American Actress is born

Birthdays

May 11, 1894

Martha Graham American Dancer is born.

February

February 27, 1932

Elizabeth Taylor American-British actress was born.

December

December 3, 1910

Freda du Faur of Austrailia becomes the first woman to scale Aoraki/Mount Cook in New Zealand.

19th Century

May 29, 1851

Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I Woman?" speech at the Women's Convention in Ohio

April

April 24, 1942

Barbara Streisand American singer-songwriter is born.

Birthdays

January 16, 1924

Katy Jurado Mexican Film Actress was born.

Birthdays

March 26, 1944

Diana Ross American singer was born.

April

April 8, 1918

Betty Ford Former First Lady of the United States of America was born.

Birthdays

September 6, 1971

Dolores O' Riordan Irish musician was born.

Birthdays

June 16, 2012

Pilot and astronaut Liu Yang was the first Chinese woman in space as a crew member of the Shenzhou 9 mission.

Birthdays

September 4, 1981

Beyonce America Singer-Songwriter is born

Birthdays

January 16, 1979

Aaliyah American Singer was born.

June

June 28, 1838

The coronation of Queen Victoria

Birthdays

June 30, 1917

Lena Horne American singer was born.

August

August 31, 1880

Queen Wilhelmina former Queen of the Netherlands was born.

Birthdays

June 14, 1952

Pat Summitt American basketball coach was born.

Birthdays

March 14, 1997

Simone Biles American gymnast is born.

Birthdays

May 22, 1970

Naomi Campbell English Model was born

Birthdays

April 11, 1979

Gillian Murphy American Ballet Dancer was born.

Birthdays

January 28, 1873

Colette French novelist was born.

April

April 23, 1995

Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid American model was born.

Birthdays

July 12, 1971

Kristi Yamaguchi American Figure Skater was born.

February

February 19, 1963

Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique, which galvanizes the women’s rights movement.

Black History

January 29, 1926

Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first black woman admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

August

August 16, 1958

Madonna America Singer-Songwriter was born.

Birthdays

September 18, 1888

Toni Wolff Jungian analyst was born.

January

January 16, 2006

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first female President in Africa when she is elected in Liberia.

Birthdays

November 2, 1755

Marie Antoinette Queen of France was born.

December

December 2, 1981

Britney Spears American Singer-Songwriter is born.

17th Century

June 27, 1880

Helen Keller American author was born.

Birthdays

September 6, 1860

Jane Addams American social activist was born.

Birthdays

July 15, 1946

Linda Ronstadt American singer was born.

Birthdays

July 22, 1992

Selena Gomez American singer and actress is born.

August

August 30, 1797

Mary Shelley English author was born.

Birthdays

July 24, 1920

Bella Abzug American lawyer was born.

August

August 26, 1971

Bella Abzug introduced the legislation proclaiming August 26th as Women's Equality Day.

Birthdays

May 23, 1910

Margaret Wise Brown American author was born.

Birthdays

January 9, 1941

Joan Chandos Baez American folk Singer was born.

July

July 11, 1960

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is published.

Birthdays

October 27, 1872

Emily Post American author was born.

Birthdays

March 28, 1986

Lady Gaga American singer-songwriter was born.

Birthdays

November 18, 1939

Margaret Atwood Canadian poet was born.

Birthdays

December 16, 1775

Jane Austen English novelist was born.

August

August 27, 1886

Rebecca Clarke British composer and violist was born.

April

April 1, 1932

Debbie Reynolds American Actress was born.

Birthdays

June 2, 1731

Martha Washington former First Lady was born.

June

June 1, 2015

Ameenah Guirb-Fakim is designated as the first woman President of Mauritius.

Birthdays

June 21, 1953

Benazir Bhutto Former Prime Minister of Pakistan was born.

Birthdays

June 27, 1949

Vera Wang fashion designer was born.

Birthdays

June 21, 1982

Saran Kaba Jones clean water advocate and social entrepreneur was born.

August

August 13, 2014

Maryam Mirzakhani wins the Fields Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics becoming the first woman to win the award as well as the first Iranian

Birthdays

May 12, 1820

Florence Nightingale, English nurse, social reformer and statistician is born.

Birthdays

May 19, 1930

Lorraine Hansberry American playwright and director is born.

May

October 9, 1970

Annika Sorenstam Swedish Professional Golfer is born.

September

September 11, 1850

Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano, known as the Swedish nightingale held her first US concert.

Black History

September 12, 1992

Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first black woman in space on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

April

April 8, 2008

Soyeon Yi becomes the first Korean in space aboard Soyuz TMA-12 with two Russian cosmonauts.

Birthdays

January 29, 1954

Oprah Winfrey American Media Proprietor is born.

September

September 2, 2013

Diana Nyad at the age of 64 becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida without a shark cage or swim fins.

Birthdays

September 26, 1981

Serena Williams American Tennis Player born.

Birthdays

September 16, 1924

Lauren Bacall American Actress was born.

August

August 7, 1909

Alice Huyler Ramsey completes a cross country automobile road trip becoming the first to do so.

August

August 6, 1926

Gertrude Ederle swims across the English Channel, becoming the first woman to do so.

August

August 4, 1910

Anita Page, aka Anita Evelyn Pomares American silent film actress, was born.

August

August 12, 1888

Bertha Benz drives round trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.

August

August 4, 1904

Helen Kane American Singer was born.

August

August 9, 1930

Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

August

August 8, 1896

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings American author was born.

August

August 19, 1883

Coco Chanel, French fashion designer was born.

Birthdays

March 25, 1982

Danica Patrick American racing driver was born.

Birthdays

October 29, 1891

Fania Borach otherwise known as Fanny Brice American model was born.

Birthdays

January 9, 1982

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge member of the British royal family was born.

Birthdays

January 26, 1958

Ellen DeGeneres American comedian was born.

April

April 20, 2008

Danica Patrick becomes the first woman in history to win an Indy car race when she wins the Indy Japan 300.

April

April 18, 1905

Bertha von Suttner an Austrian novelist who was one of the first notable women pacifist receives the Nobel Peace Prize is born.

April

April 17, 1964

Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world.

April

April 10, 1910

Margaret Clapp American Scholar was born.

April

April 25, 1917

Ella Fitzgerald American Singer was born.

Birthdays

September 19, 1949

Twiggy English Model was born.

June

June 21, 1957

Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.

April

April 12, 1994

Saoirse Ronan American-Irish actress was born.

Birthdays

December 26, 1780

Mary Sommerville Scottish Science writer was born.

Birthdays

October 25, 1947

Hillary Clinton First Lady of the United States was born.

1980s

July 2, 1989

Alex Morgan American Soccer Player is born.

Birthdays

July 30, 1981

Hope Solo American Goalkeeper was born.

Birthdays

March 17, 1933

Myrlie Evers-Williams American civil rights activist was born.

Birthdays

March 27, 1724

Jane Colden American botanist was born.

Birthdays

March 17, 1972

Mia Hamm Soccer Player was born.

Black History

January 21, 2013

Myrlie Evers Williams delivers the invocation at the second inauguration of Barak Obama as President of the United States, becoming the first woman and first layperson to do so.

January