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Icelandic politician Vigdis Finnbogadottir, a divorced single mother, is the first woman in the world to be elected head of state in a national election, and she serves as president from 1980 to 1996.
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Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie becomes the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, receiving the award in physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. In 1911 she is the sole winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. After graduating first in her class at Geneva Medical College in New York, British-born Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman doctor in the United States.
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ednut1:okay thank you ![]() |
BluntTheApostle:And you too ![]() |
BluntTheApostle:Not Anto and I will change the picture when there is proof this actually a model. I wrote a documentary film on her some two years ago and this same picture was used. Hope you have a joy filled Sunday ![]() |
Win for science Win for Humanity |
Bukola94:she has no facial marks I can recall and yes this is her. |
BluntTheApostle:well on searching the pictutre ,it still only shows funmilayo Ransome-Kuti ![]() |
dazzlingd:well she is , good Morning ![]() |
adefitim:I can actually see the resemblance ![]()
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Grace Hopper — rear admiral in the US Navy and pioneer of computer programming. Commodore Grace Hopper poses for a portrait in her office on Feb. 1, 1984.
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Asli Hassan Abade Asli Hassan Abade was the first African woman Air Force pilot in whole of Africa and middle east. She is a Somali Air force pilot, military figure, and civil activist.
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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti — Nigerian activist, feminist, and the first woman to drive a car in Africa. She is recognized as the first female Nigerian political activist. She is lovingly called as “The Mother of Africa.” Her full name is Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas
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Hillary Clinton — American politician and the first woman to be nominated for president by a major US political party.
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Mary Edwards Walker — Civil War surgeon and the first and only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor.
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Helen Keller — activist and the first deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor's degree.
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Margaret Bourke-White — photographer and the first female war photojournalist. Margaret Bourke-White, dressed in her US Air Force uniform, sits atop the engine of a B-17 bomber in Polebrook, England, in 1942.
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Ann E. Dunwoody — retired general of the US Army and the first woman to achieve the rank of four-star general
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Shirley Chisholm — American politician and the first black woman to elected to Congress
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Chioma Ajunwa — Nigerian Athlete remains only woman to compete at both the FIFA Women's World Cup as a footballer and the Olympics as a track and field athlete.
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Margaret Sanger — activist and the person who opened the first birth control clinic in the US. In this picture from April 17, 1929, Margaret Sanger's mouth is covered in protest of not being allowed to talk about birth control in Boston. Sanger instead stood silent onstage in front a crowd of 800 as Harvard professor Arthur M. Schlesinger read her prepared speech.
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Janet Guthrie — race car driver and the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500
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Nadia Comaneci — Romanian gymnast and the first person to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.
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Gwendolyn Brooks — the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
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Sarah Breedlove — the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the US.poising with her new car 1911
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Benazir Bhutto — Pakistani politician and the first woman to lead a Muslim majority nation.
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Junko Tabei — mountaineer and the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Margaret Thatcher — British politician and the first woman to be appointed prime minister in the UK.
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First American Woman in Space Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
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