Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2019 DYK Blurbs

2019 DYK Blurbs:

... that Miley Cyrus gained over 2.3 million likes on the video-sharing platform TikTok when she danced and lip-synced with Cody Simpson to "Stupid" by Ashnikko? (2019-12-31)
... that neuroengineer Maryam Shanechi and her research team developed a method to determine a person's mood from their brain activity? (2019-12-31)
... that Korean-Chinese missile expert Li Xianyu is the only female general in the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force? (2019-12-31)
... that Queen Kapiʻolani (pictured) founded the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home for the care of Hawaiian mothers and newborns, and a school for the daughters of leprosy patients? (2019-12-31)
... that due to Spanish singer Melody's three-year disappearance from the public eye, she was rumoured to be dead? (2019-12-30)
... that Mexican drug lord María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata controlled a drug trafficking ring that extended across Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S.? (2019-12-30)
... that Sally Milgrim designed the dress that Eleanor Roosevelt wore to her husband's first inaugural ball? (2019-12-29)
... that to maintain personal privacy, manga artist Paru Itagaki wears a large chicken mask that obscures her face for all public appearances? (2019-12-29)
... that British actress Naomi Watts' roles include CIA officer Valerie Plame, journalist Gretchen Carlson, and Princess Diana? (2019-12-28)
... that Kiuchi Kyō, believed to be the first Japanese woman to be a school principal, worked to improve the status of women teachers? (2019-12-28)

... that the novel Tzilla is based on author Judith Katzir's great-grandmother, who invited her lover to live with her and her husband in Palestine? (2019-12-28)
... that it can take Yvonne Walker Keshick up to a year to gather the porcupine quills and other materials she needs for a particular work of art? (2019-12-27)
... that when the Thai government ordered her return from the U.S. during World War II, PhD student Poonsapaya Kraiyong joined the Free Thai resistance movement instead? (2019-12-27)
... that Tetsu Yasui (pictured), who was raised by devout Buddhists, later converted to Christianity and served as president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University for 17 years? (2019-12-26)
... that Pomo basket weaver Susan Billy comes from a family of basket weavers that includes Susan Santiago Billy and Elsie Allen? (2019-12-26)
... that two-spirit artist Storme Webber has used various media to retell her family's experience at The Casino, one of the oldest gay bars on the West Coast? (2019-12-26)
... that Leena Al-Hadid is Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna? (2019-12-26)
... that Yoshi Kasuya was appointed to the Order of the Precious Crown for her contributions to women's education? (2019-12-25)
... that Kavya Manyapu led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using carbon nanotubes? (2019-12-25)
... that Taylor Swift wrote, recorded, and released "Christmas Tree Farm" in six days? (2019-12-25)
... that Tlingit artist Tanis S'eiltin's mixed-media installation Hit includes video, a replica M16 rifle, and a glass tank of oil and water? (2019-12-24)
... that in 1929 Rosika Schwimmer (pictured), a woman over 50 and thus ineligible to take up arms in the U.S., was denied citizenship by the Supreme Court for pacifism and became stateless? (2019-12-24)
... that French Resistance member Odette Abadi was a co-founder of Réseau Marcel, which saved more than 500 Jewish children during the Holocaust? (2019-12-24)
... that the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, Jacqueline Coleman, is a basketball coach and the granddaughter of a National Basketball Association player? (2019-12-23)
... that The History of Doing describes a fundamentalist Hindu protest, with many women part of it, in favour of sati, the burning of widows? (2019-12-22)
... that soprano Irma Beilke appeared as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio on 4 September 1945 in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II? (2019-12-22)
... that Clairo drew inspiration for her songs "Sofia" and "Bags" from her crushes on women? (2019-12-21)
... that Shiza Shahid and Malala Yousafzai co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013 to promote education for every girl? (2019-12-21)
... that HIV researcher Diane Havlir was the U.S. national short track champion in 1974? (2019-12-20)
... that Sharon Priest, the Secretary of State of Arkansas, launched the state's first internet-based information network in 1995? (2019-12-19)
... that Louie Cullen, known as "the last of the suffragettes", started a prison hunger strike after her arrest for a 1908 attempt to rush into the House of Commons to promote women's right to vote in the UK? (2019-12-19)
... that the pianist Clara Schumann, who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's in Frankfurt, including those from Britain and the U.S.? (2019-12-19)
... that chess player Carissa Yip defeated a grandmaster at the age of ten? (2019-12-19)
... that English scientist Nicola Curtin donated to charity the £865,000 she received for helping develop the cancer drug Rubraca? (2019-12-17)
... that Ms. Monopoly replaces properties with inventions women contributed to, such as Wi-Fi, chocolate chip cookies, and modern shapewear? (2019-12-17)
... that Berna Gözbaşı is the first woman president of a football club playing in the Turkish top-level men's league? (2019-12-17)
... that Juli Briskman, who received international coverage for flipping off President Donald Trump, went on to enter politics and win an election? (2019-12-16)
... that after her own childhood experiences, Carla Herrero founded Rompe el Silencio ("Breaking the Silence") to support youth who have suffered bullying, abuse, and psychological disorders? (2019-12-16)
... that along with her business partners, philanthropist Sara Braun (pictured), one of the first businesswomen in Punta Arenas, Chile, was involved in the genocide of the Selk'nam people? (2019-12-14)
... that Catriona Ida Macleod has received a Social Change Award from Rhodes University for her work in promoting African-based psychology? (2019-12-14)
... that prior to debuting as a voice actress in 2018, Iori Saeki had been self-publishing songs as a dōjin musician for several years? (2019-12-13)
... that Esther Killick repeatedly "gassed herself for science" in order to study carbon monoxide poisoning and acclimatisation? (2019-12-13)
... that Merryll Saylan helped pioneer the application of color and the use of secondary materials in woodturning art? (2019-12-11)
... that Colleen Barrett, the first female president of a major airline, appeared in patriotic advertisements for Southwest Airlines after the September 11 attacks? (2019-12-11)
... that Lu Shijia, founder of China's first university aerodynamics program, twice declined nominations to the Chinese Academy of Sciences? (2019-12-10)
... that although Elizabeth Richards Tilton (pictured) was a central figure in a six-month-long trial, she was never allowed to speak in court? (2019-12-10)
... that in 2018, Maëlle became the first female and youngest contestant ever to win the French version of The Voice? (2019-12-09)
... that Virginia Kirkus reviewed 16,000 books for her bookshop service between the 1930s and 1960s? (2019-12-08)
... that Gayl King became the first female darts player to compete in the PDC World Darts Championship after the Professional Darts Corporation invited her to play in the 2001 tournament? (2019-12-07)
... that Indian-American chef Raji Jallepalli, who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a microbiologist? (2019-12-06)
... that Kodama Naoko, creator of I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up, called the yuri manga series her first "light" work "in a long time"? (2019-12-05)
... that before becoming a professional mathematician, Chikako Mese was a record-breaking high school softball player? (2019-12-05)
... that feminist Carole De Saram caused the closure of a Citibank branch? (2019-12-05)
... that letters which Charlotte Pistorius, the self-taught wife of a country pastor, wrote to intellectuals Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ernst Moritz Arndt were published with their works? (2019-12-04)
... that Sara Wesslin, featured on the BBC's 100 Women for 2019, is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami? (2019-12-03)
... that public health historian Elizabeth Fee wrote on topics as varied as the history of HIV/AIDS, the racialized treatment of syphilis, bioterrorism, and the history of the toothbrush? (2019-12-03)
... that former Playboy model Susie Owens hand-produced up to 50,000 vials of perfume and lotion each year in her garage? (2019-12-02)
... that British journalist Anna Kessel co-founded the charity Women in Football, and initiated the Blue Plaque Rebellion, to promote gender equality for women in sport? (2019-12-02)
... that research on pain in fish by Victoria Braithwaite resulted in new rules in the UK, Europe, and Canada to make fisheries more humane? (2019-12-01)
... that Kathrin Göring portrayed both Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring in Minden, and a critic called her scene in Götterdämmerung a highlight, noting her dramatic mezzo-soprano and intense acting? (2019-12-01)
... that screenwriter and director Yūki Yamato (pictured) created her first film, That Girl is Dancing by the Seaside, while studying philosophy at Sophia University? (2019-11-30)
... that Hedwig Porschütz, who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, was not honoured as an "unsung heroine" in West Berlin because she had been a prostitute? (2019-11-29)
... that Ellie Morrison is the first woman to serve as the national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America since its incorporation in 1910? (2019-11-29)
... that American politician Safiya Wazir came to Uzbekistan as a refugee from Afghanistan? (2019-11-28)
... that Alexandrea Owens became known as "the Titanic girl" after performing with Leonardo DiCaprio in the James Cameron epic at the age of eight? (2019-11-28)
... that Isabelle Kabatu, a Belgian soprano of African origin, recorded the role of Dolly in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly alongside José Carreras in the title role? (2019-11-27)
... that women vendors at Victorian charity bazaars were criticized for using the events to flirt with men? (2019-11-27)
... that Li Yin's paintings (example shown) were so sought after that as many as forty imitators in her area turned out fakes of her work? (2019-11-26)
... that Carolyn F. Ulrich, who began her career with no formal library training, eventually became the chief of the periodicals division at the New York Public Library? (2019-11-26)
... that Adaora Adimora, an American professor who studies sexually transmitted infections among minorities, was named one of the top 100 African American leaders by The Root in 2009? (2019-11-25)
... that CNN political correspondent MJ Lee became an American citizen during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign, which she reported on? (2019-11-24)
... that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini, and later choreographed for the troupe? (2019-11-24)
... that tropical ecologist Winifred Hallwachs helped develop and expand the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site? (2019-11-23)
... that nurse and suffragette Mary Bartlett Dixon helped establish the first hospital in Easton, Maryland? (2019-11-22)
... that the unpaid dowry owed by Lucia Visconti's family upon her marriage to Edmund Holland remained a source of friction between England and Milan for more than 60 years after her death? (2019-11-21)
... that during the Apollo 11 program, biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on NASA's headset link? (2019-11-21)
... that in 2019, Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman (pictured) received the Order of British Columbia for her contributions to a better quality of life in the province "and beyond"? (2019-11-20)
... that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria? (2019-11-19)
... that with Danielle Dithurbide's appointment to anchor the morning newscast on Las Estrellas, a majority of Mexican news broadcaster Noticieros Televisa's news programs are hosted by women? (2019-11-19)
... that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita? (2019-11-18)
... that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting dysentery, Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France? (2019-11-17)
... that the stories in Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy, published posthumously in 2014, had been written over a period of decades and filed away in a drawer? (2019-11-17)
... that Carla Lalli Music, the food director of Bon Appétit magazine, was the first general manager at Shake Shack? (2019-11-17)
... that Dorothy Spiers was the first woman to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom? (2019-11-16)
... that Manisha Moun kept her boxing interest a secret from her father until he read in a newspaper that she had won a medal? (2019-11-13)
... that Anne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington? (2019-11-13)
... that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II? (2019-11-11)
... that when Lois Ellen Frank (pictured) first proposed her 2003 James Beard Award–winning cookbook on Native American foods, publishers told her there was no such cuisine? (2019-11-10)
... that Christina Maria Rantetana was buried in a combined military-traditional funeral, with a salvo of shots as her body was placed in a niche 30 metres (100 ft) up a cliff? (2019-11-10)
... that Anne L. Stevens disguised herself in order to enroll in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track? (2019-11-09)
... that Jennifer Morgan, co-chief executive officer at SAP SE, is the first woman CEO of a company on the DAX index? (2019-11-08)
... that director Kunihiko Ikuhara sought to make the 1999 film Adolescence of Utena "more naughty" than the television series it was adapted from? (2019-11-08)
... that Melissa Leilani Larson's play Pilot Program imagines a future where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are asked to practice polygamy again? (2019-11-07)
... that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favour of sex education and other reproductive rights? (2019-11-07)
... that Xia Peisu (pictured), the "mother of computer science" in China, and her husband Yang Liming, who helped explain magic numbers, were elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the same time? (2019-11-06)
... that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok ('Games')? (2019-11-03)
... that Khema, one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attained enlightenment before even becoming a nun? (2019-11-03)
... that in The Book of Gutsy Women, the mother-and-daughter authors feature, among others, the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz and climate activist Greta Thunberg? (2019-11-02)
... that an omelette created by Mother Poulard (pictured) is one of the major tourist attractions in Mont-Saint-Michel, France? (2019-11-02)
... that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia? (2019-11-01)
... that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland? (2019-10-31)
... that structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like Ebola are spread? (2019-10-30)
... that Sunita Sharma is reportedly India's first woman cricket coach? (2019-10-29)
... that Turkish correspondent Pelin Ünker is the only journalist in the world sentenced for writing about the Paradise Papers investigation? (2019-10-28)
... that Lisa Daugaard attended the University of Washington at the age of twelve? (2019-10-28)
... that in 2018, Élisabeth Revol became the first woman to ascend Nanga Parbat in winter, and her rescue on the descent was widely reported? (2019-10-27)
... that Eagle Woman (pictured) is credited as the only woman to become a chief among the Sioux, and the first woman to sign a treaty with the United States? (2019-10-27)
... that in 2019, Brigham Young University volleyball coach Heather Olmstead held the highest winning percentage of any women's volleyball coach in NCAA Division I history? (2019-10-26)
... that Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia? (2019-10-25)
... that Mai Khôi (pictured), an outspoken singer and political dissident known as the "Lady Gaga of Vietnam", received a Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2018? (2019-10-25)
... that after Ruth Darrow's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn, she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause? (2019-10-24)
... that director Celia Rowlson-Hall cast herself as a modern version of the Virgin Mary in her first feature film? (2019-10-24)
... that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender? (2019-10-23)
... that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma? (2019-10-23)
... that housing expert Patricia Bagot argued with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi over the quality of housing in Libya? (2019-10-22)
... that Swedish journalist Ingalill Mosander and her husband Jan Mosander both survived the Costa Concordia disaster in 2012? (2019-10-22)
... that botanist Betty Flint continued research in a voluntary capacity at Lincoln University and Landcare Research until she was 100 years old? (2019-10-22)
... that one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, Uppalavanna, is said to have become a nun because she was so beautiful that her father feared conflict between her many wealthy suitors? (2019-10-21)
... that prior to joining the Supreme Court of Chile, Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the MOP-Gate case? (2019-10-21)
... that mathematician Dona Strauss left South Africa over apartheid, lost a faculty job at Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found European Women in Mathematics? (2019-10-21)
... that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an HIV/AIDS scandal in China? (2019-10-20)
... that Gujarati writer Rambha Gandhi wrote and participated in more than 400 radio plays? (2019-10-20)
... that Lee Eun-soo was South Korea's seventh female general officer and the first in the legal branch? (2019-10-20)
... that when pianist Clara Wieck (pictured with the score) composed her Piano Concerto in A minor as a teenager, her future husband Robert Schumann helped with the orchestration? (2019-10-18)
... that according to dietician Amy Brown, a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public? (2019-10-18)
... that Hannah Simpson Grant (pictured), mother of U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant, did not attend her son's inauguration? (2019-10-17)
... that pediatric oncologist Brigid Leventhal was one of only six women in her graduating class from Harvard Medical School in 1960? (2019-10-17)
... that more than 4 million videos on TikTok feature the song "Mia Khalifa" – also known as the "Hit or Miss" song – even though the app had not licensed its use and has never paid the artists? (2019-10-16)
... that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man? (2019-10-16)
... that Julie Dretzin has narrated audiobooks using Russian accents for some characters and Maine accents for others? (2019-10-15)
... that Celia Harvey has been a countess, a lecturer, a parliamentary candidate, and a British Army brigadier? (2019-10-14)
... that Sheila Heaney, director of the Women's Royal Army Corps, visited the United States in 1972 to study how women were being integrated into the U.S. Army? (2019-10-13)
... that Song Myung-soon was the first woman South Korean army general from a combat arm? (2019-10-12)
... that Nadja Malacrida said in a Vim advertisement that it was "no use having new ideas of decoration if you have old ideas of dirt"? (2019-10-12)
... that Lisa Gordon-Hagerty (pictured), head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, once said, "I have more important things to do than advise Nicole Kidman"? (2019-10-12)
... that Kylie Minogue was dropped as an act by Geffen Records after her 1989 album Enjoy Yourself failed to find an audience in the United States? (2019-10-12)
... that the character of Felicity Smoak, from The CW's Arrowverse franchise, first appeared in the DC Comics series The Fury of Firestorm in 1984? (2019-10-11)
... that American historian Susan L. Mann won the Fairbank Prize for exploring the roles of elite women and same-sex social relationships in Chinese history? (2019-10-10)
... that Ester Peony, Romania's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, spent part of her early life in Canada? (2019-10-10)
... that choreographer Margaret Barr created more than 80 works (example pictured), inspired by subjects such as Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Mead, drought, and the Melbourne Cup? (2019-10-09)
... that Jane Eskind was the first woman to win a statewide election in Tennessee? (2019-10-09)
... that Swedish actress Lotta Ramel portrayed her real-life mother, actress Susanna Ramel, in the film Ted: För kärlekens skull? (2019-10-08)
... that professor of English Alice D. Snyder helped lead the campaign that earned women in New York the right to vote? (2019-10-08)
... that when Marie-Thérèse Gauley premiered the title role of Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, he praised both her acting and her "ravishing voice"? (2019-10-06)
... that in 1881, Kate Dover killed Thomas Skinner by cooking him a roast dinner with arsenic in the stuffing, but was not convicted of murder? (2019-10-06)
... that a review of the London Group's 1936 exhibition noted that many works seemed "perverse and downright silly", but those by Ruth Doggett (portrait shown) formed "welcome oases of sense and sensibility"? (2019-10-05)
... that temperance activist Sarah Robinson visited brothels in an attempt to improve the health of prostitutes and their clients? (2019-10-04)
... that Elizabeth, Lady Echlin, a correspondent of the author, wrote a revised ending to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa in which the rape that was central to the original version is averted? (2019-10-03)
... that French Resistance agent Jeannette Guyot was one of only two women to be awarded America's second highest military honour during World War II? (2019-10-02)
... that Adele Zay successfully led a campaign in 1894 for Transylvanian authorities to recognize kindergarten and handicraft teachers so that they were entitled to pensions? (2019-10-01)
... that Patricia Swallow led the Wrens, served on the Heron, and was vice president of the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society? (2019-09-30)
... that Finland's minister of science and culture Hanna Kosonen is a world champion in ski orienteering? (2019-09-30)
... that Swedish scientist Marie Dacke discovered that dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate at night? (2019-09-29)
... that 16th-century Chinese painter Qiu Zhu was known for her depiction of Guanyin (pictured), the goddess of compassion popular among women? (2019-09-28)
... that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt Semperoper in Dresden? (2019-09-28)
... that Semin Öztürk Şener is Turkey's first female professional civilian aerobatic pilot? (2019-09-27)
... that Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married? (2019-09-26)
... that Ng On-yee won the 2018 Women's World Snooker Championship without losing a single frame in all six of her tournament matches? (2019-09-26)
... that Emirati geneticist Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015? (2019-09-25)
... that Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song "Timebomb", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"? (2019-09-24)
... that American writer Jan Fortune was born in the back of a post office in Wellington, Texas? (2019-09-24)
... that Mary van Kleeck, a social reformer and labor activist, was the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the American government during World War I? (2019-09-23)
... that the gynaecologist Margaret Puxon, who started studying law to prevent boredom while on maternity leave, eventually became a barrister? (2019-09-22)
... that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her kayaks were seized? (2019-09-22)
... that Scyller Borglum and a deceased candidate both won the same election? (2019-09-21)
... that What Did You Eat Yesterday? was one of the first pieces of mainstream Japanese media to substantially depict a cohabiting gay male couple? (2019-09-20)
... that African-American suffragist Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams was denied membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association? (2019-09-20)
... that Janice Kavander (pictured) once sang both the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at a hockey game – in Sweden? (2019-09-20)
... that Polish resistance member Alicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions? (2019-09-20)
... that when rag sorter Mary Fitzpatrick was tried for murder, the jury included six aristocrats and the judge was Sir Henry Hawkins of the High Court, known as "Hanging Hawkins"? (2019-09-19)
... that according to Jennifer Foster, Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode? (2019-09-19)
... that Serbian poisoner Baba Anujka (pictured), aged over 90 at the time of her trial, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor? (2019-09-19)
... that during the First World War, the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps was criticised in the contemporary press for "encroaching too closely on male territory"? (2019-09-18)
... that Better Together's "The woman who made up her mind" advert opposing Scottish independence so upset politician Sandra Grieve that she changed her mind and began supporting independence? (2019-09-18)
... that Sahraa Karimi is the first and only woman in Afghanistan who has a PhD in filmmaking? (2019-09-18)
... that after Mary Ma orchestrated Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC division, she was named by Forbes as the 57th most powerful woman in the world? (2019-09-18)
... that Ulrike Sonntag, a soprano at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and an academic voice teacher in Stuttgart, recorded an oratorio by Fanny Hensel and psalm settings by Lili Boulanger? (2019-09-17)
... that footballer Megan Wynne played for Tottenham Hotspur while also working full-time in the club's human resources department? (2019-09-17)
... that though she lacked her brothers' opportunities for formal schooling, the Irish suffragist Mary Ward was the first woman to pass the Cambridge moral sciences tripos with first class honours? (2019-09-17)
... that writer Brigitte Kronauer (pictured), who won the Georg Büchner Prize, the Jean Paul Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize, was described as both "a master of spite" and having "great kindness"? (2019-09-17)
... that Taylor Swift uses Leonardo DiCaprio as an example to explain sexism in her song "The Man"? (2019-09-16)
... that lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"? (2019-09-16)
... that Dorothy Christian Hare was the first woman general physician to be elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians? (2019-09-16)
... that Thuy Trang became so ill on her voyage out of Saigon to seek political asylum in the US that other passengers wanted to throw her overboard, thinking she was dead? (2019-09-15)
... that 19-year-old mxmtoon, who records lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album? (2019-09-15)
... that Australian astrophysicist Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her Wiradjuri heritage while training at the Sydney Observatory? (2019-09-15)
... that during the English Civil War, Katherine Stuart smuggled messages from Charles I to royalist sympathisers in London? (2019-09-15)
... that Ariana Grande's song "In My Head" includes a voicemail recorded by her best friend, Doug Middlebrook, because it suited the lyrics? (2019-09-15)
... that Canadian dressage rider Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt? (2019-09-14)
... that the novel Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann uses stream of consciousness narrative and mostly consists of a single sentence running over more than 1,000 pages? (2019-09-14)
... that Mexican lawyer María José Cristerna, known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world? (2019-09-13)
... that footballer Carrie Jones made her international debut for Wales despite being too young to play for her club side? (2019-09-13)
... that South African theoretical physicist Adriana Marais was one of 100 candidates chosen for Mars One? (2019-09-13)
... that a 2018 documentary depicts Nadia Murad (pictured), who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State, alerting politicians and journalists to the atrocities being committed in her native Iraq? (2019-09-12)
... that Leila Ernst barged into a dance audition to show theatre producer George Abbott that she could sing and dance? (2019-09-12)
... that Doris Bergen holds Canada's only endowed chair in Holocaust history? (2019-09-12)
... that Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than Hypatia? (2019-09-11)
... that Winnie Quagliotti protested against the Australian Bicentenary by dressing in a possum-skin cloak and throwing a wattle wreath into the sea at Princes Pier? (2019-09-10)
... that Noelle Campbell-Sharp has led the Cill Rialaig project, hosting over 5,000 artists on residencies in County Kerry, Ireland, since 1991? (2019-09-10)
... that Mathea Olin's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in surfing? (2019-09-10)
... that English violinist Eva Mudocci (depiction shown) was a muse to Edvard Munch and Henri Matisse? (2019-09-10)
... that Danish MEP Pernille Weiss is a sexologist? (2019-09-09)
... that playwright Eugene O'Neill stipulated that actress Mary Welch had to gain at least 50 pounds (23 kg) for a role in his play A Moon for the Misbegotten? (2019-09-09)
... that comic books by Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards? (2019-09-09)
... that Venezuelan director Patricia Ortega (pictured) has drawn strength from her film Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals? (2019-09-08)
... that Samragyee RL Shah (pictured) is the highest-paid actress in Nepali cinema as of 2019? (2019-09-07)
... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life? (2019-09-07)
... that Hungarian MEP Anna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party? (2019-09-07)
... that Ursula Boese, a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala, and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer? (2019-09-06)
... that snooker player Mandy Fisher played whilst pregnant, but lamented that this was more newsworthy than female players' skill? (2019-09-06)
... that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world? (2019-09-06)
... that a Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian pool player Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena? (2019-09-05)
... that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in Colette's story Gigi? (2019-09-03)
... that Meghan Trainor's 2019 EP The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"? (2019-09-03)
... that the Lebanon women's national football team's first official qualification campaign took place eight years after their inception? (2019-09-03)
... that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband? (2019-09-03)
... that Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of Irving, Texas, from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a zoning dispute? (2019-09-03)
... that a critic described the song "Lover" as a throwback to Taylor Swift's "country days"? (2019-09-02)
... that the work of C. Doris Hellman on the Great Comet of 1577 led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the Copernican Revolution? (2019-09-02)
... that Petra Klingler finished third in the Ice Climbing World Cup while climbing on one leg? (2019-09-01)
... that Vicky Knight, who played an acid-attack victim in her debut film role, works as a healthcare assistant in the hospital where she was treated as a child? (2019-08-31)
... that in 1999, Pam Coats was promoted to senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Animation Studios, becoming the highest-ranking woman at the company? (2019-08-31)
... that Misty Talley, who directed shark horror films for Syfy, edits about five feature film projects at a time? (2019-08-30)
... that African-American educator Jennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join the NAACP after its local leaders criticized her views on segregation? (2019-08-30)
... that there will be a women's Twenty20 cricket tournament for the first time at the 2022 Commonwealth Games? (2019-08-30)
... that Barbara Zechmeister, who appeared in world premieres at the Oper Frankfurt, portrayed Clarissa in a recorded production of Weber's Die drei Pintos at the 2004 Wexford Festival? (2019-08-30)
... that Swarup Rani Nehru (pictured) appealed to women to make salt in defiance of the salt laws in British India? (2019-08-29)
... that Turkish television and film actress Serenay Aktaş was once a women's footballer? (2019-08-28)
... that teenage CEO Alina Morse's (pictured) sugar-free candy company had US$6 million in sales when she was thirteen years old? (2019-08-28)
... that Ryan Ashley Malarkey is the only woman to win Ink Master in its first eleven seasons? (2019-08-27)
... that Jill Martin was the only actor to appear in all three West End runs of the musical My Fair Lady? (2019-08-27)
... that Cynthia Whitchurch's discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a paradigm shift in the study of biofilms? (2019-08-27)
... that when Jessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee in Cass Timberlane, it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific "Mrs."? (2019-08-26)
... that Dorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II? (2019-08-26, 2019-09-29)
... that Sophie Luff, who captained the boys' cricket team whilst at school, was named the "most promising young female cricketer" of 2015? (2019-08-25)
... that a young woman who went missing in a Rosemont, Illinois, hotel was later found dead inside a walk-in freezer? (2019-08-25)
... that the different types of combined hormonal contraception include a pill, a patch, an injection, and a vaginal ring? (2019-08-25)
... that Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded over 1000 tapes of the Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, and Old & In the Way, but lost them when she could not pay the storage fees? (2019-08-25)
... that every Saturday for decades, Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms? (2019-08-24)
... that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory? (2019-08-24)
... that after pyrimethamine was price-hiked by 5000 percent, Sydney University chemists Matthew H. Todd and Alice Motion supported the high school students who showed it could be synthesised cheaply? (2019-08-24)
... that after a friend told Toni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she was too drunk to drive, Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since? (2019-08-23)
... that when Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in Richmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote? (2019-08-23)
... that Yvette Lévy (pictured) has returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp more than 200 times with students, to teach them about her experience at the camp where she survived the Holocaust? (2019-08-22)
... that footballer Rachel Rowe made her international debut for Wales while still working as a guard in the prison service? (2019-08-22)
... that when the Three Marias published New Portuguese Letters as a direct challenge to Portuguese censors, they were arrested and the book was banned, leading to international protests? (2019-08-22)
... that among the musical roles performed by Anke Sieloff at the Musiktheater im Revier are Maria in West Side Story, and a witch in the first German production of The Witches of Eastwick? (2019-08-22)
... that Helen Appo Cook, an African-American activist, publicly admonished Susan B. Anthony in 1898 for failing to support universal suffrage? (2019-08-21)
... that the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was moved to the United States after the SARS outbreak in China, the original host? (2019-08-21)
... that Perla Farías has created telenovelas, such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur, which avoid classic stereotypes? (2019-08-20)
... that Kristine M. Larson (pictured) and her research team were the first to demonstrate that GPS could be used to detect seismic waves? (2019-08-20)
... that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship? (2019-08-20)
... that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it? (2019-08-20)
... that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi? (2019-08-19)
... that footage of Ann Peterson diving was the first 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States? (2019-08-19)
... that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it? (2019-08-18)
... that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States? (2019-08-18)
... that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered? (2019-08-18)
... that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon? (2019-08-17)
... that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade? (2019-08-17)
... that chef Asma Khan's husband is not a fan of her food? (2019-08-17)
... that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race? (2019-08-16)
... that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal? (2019-08-15)
... that activist Célia Xakriabá (pictured) is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in the Minas Gerais Department of Education? (2019-08-15)
... that Alice Evans was the first British female professional futsal player? (2019-08-15)
... that Myrtle Driver Johnson can translate into a language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency? (2019-08-14)
... that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014? (2019-08-14)
... that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II? (2019-08-13)
... that Anna Eckstein (pictured) dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promote world peace before the First World War? (2019-08-13)
... that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018? (2019-08-12)
... that Rose Hollermann (pictured) was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics? (2019-08-12)
... that Guðrún Björnsdóttir, a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor? (2019-08-12)
... that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six? (2019-08-12)
... that Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen became a student of Arve Tellefsen by the age of four? (2019-08-11)
... that Wibke Bruhns (pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis? (2019-08-10)
... that Karen Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims? (2019-08-10)
... that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights, Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel's Supreme Court twice? (2019-08-09)
... that Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, was originally planned to focus on the September 11 attacks? (2019-08-09)
... that Ina Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German national pool championships? (2019-08-09)
... that following the release of "You Need to Calm Down", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations? (2019-08-08)
... that American academic Amy Wax graduated from Harvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer? (2019-08-08)
... that after fleeing Chihuahua due to death threats, Patricia Mayorga dedicated her 2017 CPJ International Press Freedom Award to two murdered journalists? (2019-08-07)
... that footballer Alice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league? (2019-08-07)
... that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover? (2019-08-06)
... that philanthropist Mary Robinson Foster (pictured) was known as the first Hawaiian Buddhist? (2019-08-05)
... that after Josephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same? (2019-08-04)
... that Jeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere of Massenet's Le portrait de Manon, a sequel to his Manon? (2019-08-04)
... that American collage artist Eunice Parsons, who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"? (2019-08-04)
... that Mother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child? (2019-08-03)
... that Wilhelmine Lübke (pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West Germany Heinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian? (2019-08-01)
... that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889? (2019-08-01)
... that Susan Beschta was a punk rocker and federal judge? (2019-07-30)
... that 19 years after Mrinalini Devi married Rabindranath Tagore, many of her wedding jewels were sold to fund Brahmacharya Ashram, a school he founded? (2019-07-30)
... that Lord Mayor of Birmingham Yvonne Mosquito opened comedian Joe Lycett's kitchen extension? (2019-07-28)
... that some LGBTQ activists have opposed the use of the term "lesbian erasure", because it has sometimes been used in opposition to transgender rights? (2019-07-28)
... that Canadian auto racing driver Kat Teasdale reportedly once asked the starter to wait while she applied lipstick? (2019-07-27)
... that Clemantine Wamariya was reunited with her parents on The Oprah Winfrey Show, twelve years after being separated from them during the Rwandan genocide? (2019-07-27)
... that Lilian Benningsen, a singer at the Bavarian State Opera for decades, appeared as Carolina in the world premiere of Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende (Elegy for Young Lovers)? (2019-07-26)
... that the Granadan princess Fatima bint al-Ahmar was described as "surpassing the women of her time like the Night of Power surpasses all the other nights" by the historian Ibn al-Khatib? (2019-07-26)
... that Australian theatre director and former chemistry demonstrator May Hollinworth was described as "a wizard with lighting effects"? (2019-07-25)
... that Gujarati academic Daksha Pattani published her doctoral thesis on Mahatma Gandhi in six volumes? (2019-07-24)
... that Summer Rayne Oakes has been called "the world's first eco-model" because she only models clothes made from organic or recycled materials? (2019-07-23)
... that Mandy Moore choreographed La La Land's opening number using 30 dancers, 100 extras, and 60 cars stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway? (2019-07-23)
... that Paula R. Pietromonaco found that attachment styles affect how people think and behave during conflict? (2019-07-22)
... that Nozomi Nishida is a member of Walküre, a music group which exists both in real life and in the anime Macross Delta? (2019-07-22)
... that cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 42 trips outside the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1970 in response to invitations she received after becoming the first woman in space? (2019-07-21)
... that Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and was a medical officer for the Peace Corps before becoming an astronaut? (2019-07-21)
... that Maria Magnani Noya was the first woman mayor of Turin and the second woman mayor in Italy? (2019-07-19)
... that sculptor Alice King Chatham used plaster casts to design custom-fitted oxygen masks and helmets for Project Mercury astronauts? (2019-07-19)
... that according to a study conducted by epidemiologist Xifeng Wu and her colleagues, fifteen minutes of moderate exercise per day can increase lifespan by an average of three years? (2019-07-18)
... that Robyn Benincasa ran a marathon four months after having surgery for osteoarthritis and being told she might never run again? (2019-07-18)
... that Isabel Martin was one of the Australian Devils who won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphan Buri, Thailand? (2019-07-17)
... that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year? (2019-07-17, 2020-07-17)
... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home? (2019-07-16)
... that Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut called American journalist Janet Lee Stevens "the little drummer girl" because of her staunch support for their cause? (2019-07-14)
... that Australian rules footballer Emerson Woods was a premiership player in the VFL Women's while still in secondary school? (2019-07-14)
... that Back to Black, the final studio album by Amy Winehouse, topped the European Top 100 Albums chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks? (2019-07-14)
... that in 1953, Satyawati Suleiman became the first woman to receive a degree in archaeology from the University of Indonesia? (2019-07-13)
... that Abby Dunkin was one of three University of Texas at Arlington players selected as members of the All Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship? (2019-07-13)
... that Maria Howard Weeden painted many portraits of African-American freedmen and freedwomen? (2019-07-12)
... that Elizabeth L. Gardner served as a WASP during World War II and was the subject of a well-known photo (pictured)? (2019-07-12)
... that New Zealand-born singer Rosé (pictured) initially thought her father's suggestion that she audition to become a K-pop star was a joke, as the family lived in Australia? (2019-07-10)
... that researcher Leslie Leve has found that parents' depression is associated with an increased likelihood of behavioral problems in their children? (2019-07-10)
... that the Kinetest, a women's ski trail at the Grovatesten ski field in Meråker, is named after the Norwegian cross-country skier Kine Beate Bjørnås? (2019-07-10)
... that Isabelle Story, a member of Eleanor Roosevelt's press corps, published a weekly column called "Chatting With The First Lady"? (2019-07-09)
... that Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of Trinity College, Connecticut? (2019-07-08)
... that Im Eun-ju was the first South Korean woman to referee at the international level of association football? (2019-07-07)
... that Florrie Redford played football with other women during her lunch break at a World War I munitions factory prior to becoming a leading goal scorer for Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C.? (2019-07-07)
... that Germany defeated Sweden in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Final (pictured) with a golden goal, the last time this method of deciding the final was approved? (2019-07-07)
... that wheelchair basketball player Teisha Shadwell raised money for a custom-built chair on GoFundMe? (2019-07-06)
... that Maria Hueber founded the first school for girls in the Tyrol region? (2019-07-05)
... that Maddie Shevlin dislocated her thumb on debut in her first season of Australian rules football and missed the next ten weeks? (2019-07-04)
... that the German soprano Melanie Diener began her stage career in Mozart roles in 1996, and appeared as Isolde with the Canadian Opera Company and the Opéra national du Rhin in 2013? (2019-07-03)
... that in 2018, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in 19th-century literature? (2019-07-02)
... that Alexandra Phillips and Alexandra Phillips stood against each other for election in South East England, and both were elected? (2019-07-02)
... that Turkish women's footballer Aslı Canan Sabırlı was appointed technical director of her team while she was still a member of the squad? (2019-07-02, 2019-09-08)
... that Women and Politics in Canada by Janine Brodie was the first book to study Canadian women in political campaigns between 1945 and 1975? (2019-07-01)
... that Sarah Smarsh's 2018 memoir Heartland argues that belief in the American Dream leads to the continued oppression of those in poverty? (2019-06-29)
... that the Hungarian coloratura soprano Sylvia Geszty (pictured) was a member of the Berlin State Opera in East Germany before joining the Stuttgart State Opera in the West? (2019-06-28)
... that motorsport official Silvia Bellot was part of the first all-woman panel of stewards in the history of the World Rally Championship at the 2016 Rally Catalunya? (2019-06-27)
... that Meghan Trainor's song "All the Ways" was inspired by a conversation she had with her husband Daryl Sabara? (2019-06-27)
... that reproductive immunologist Anne Croy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work with uterine natural killer cells during pregnancy? (2019-06-26)
... that Monique Scheier-Schneider, general secretary of the Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation since 1992, has managed her country's men's under-18, men's junior, and men's national ice hockey teams? (2019-06-25)
... that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination? (2019-06-24)
... that Canadian nurse Edith Campbell (pictured) was awarded the Military Medal for her bravery during air raids on a First World War hospital in France? (2019-06-24)
... that Diane Holl was the first female race engineer to win a Championship Auto Racing Teams motor race? (2019-06-24)
... that Sandy Schreier's clothing collection includes three Valentino outfits owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? (2019-06-23)
... that while American social media celebrity Olivia Jade said, "I don't really care about school", she applied and was accepted to the University of Southern California? (2019-06-22)
... that silent film actress Fannie Bourke ran a 500-seat "votes for women" movie theatre in New Rochelle, New York? (2019-06-22)
... that Carin Clauss, the first female solicitor of the United States Department of Labor, was also nominated by President Carter to be a judge? (2019-06-21)
... that Nujeen Mustafa, a teenage Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy, travelled 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) in a wheelchair to seek asylum in Germany? (2019-06-20)
... that Naomi Koshi is the youngest woman ever elected mayor of a Japanese city? (2019-06-19)
... that Ellen Schwiers, who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival and in a film in 1961, founded a touring theatre company with her husband and daughter? (2019-06-19)
... that the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, which began 20 years ago today, was moved to large American football stadiums after the success of the 1996 Olympics soccer tournament? (2019-06-19)
... that Meaning of Life is Kelly Clarkson's first album after successfully finishing her American Idol recording contract? (2019-06-18)
... that when Florence Fang sees a dinosaur, she buys it for her Flintstones-themed house? (2019-06-18)
... that spokesmodel Daniella van Graas thinks she has been largely typecast as a model, but wishes to gain 20 kilograms (44 lb) and play a Monster? (2019-06-18)
... that developmental researcher Marion Underwood found that a group of ninth-grade students sent an average of 1,321 text messages a month? (2019-06-17)
... that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke safeguarded the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)? (2019-06-17)
... that in 1991, Harue Kitamura became the first woman to be elected mayor of a Japanese city? (2019-06-15)
... that Elizabeth Bartlet's PhD thesis on Étienne Méhul was described as earning "the iconic status reserved for the few doctoral theses that are destined to change their chosen field"? (2019-06-15)
... that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on Mars? (2019-06-14)
... that Max Brod reviewed a performance of Ria Thiele, an actress and dancer who played in theatres of Vienna, Berlin and Prague? (2019-06-13)
... that the poet Nina Salaman (pictured) was the first woman to deliver a sermon in a British Orthodox synagogue? (2019-06-13)
... that Nepalese student Sangita Magar became a human rights activist after she survived an acid attack at the age of 16? (2019-06-12)
... that Ruth-Margret Pütz was considered one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s? (2019-06-11)
... that Nancy Fish, widow of P. T. Barnum, is said to have met her second husband when she fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza into his arms? (2019-06-11)
... that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only? (2019-06-11)
... that Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA? (2019-06-10)
... that Cameroonian singer Lady Ponce advertised that her wedding would take place at 3:30 p.m., then held it at 9:00 a.m. to avoid paparazzi? (2019-06-09)
... that spelling is fun, according to Taylor Swift? (2019-06-08)
... that although Isabella Forshall did not go to school, she gained two university degrees and four postgraduate diplomas in medicine and surgery? (2019-06-08)
... that Zhang Dongju, Chen Fahu, and J.-J. Hublin discovered that a fossil jaw from Baishiya Cave belonged to the first known Denisovan outside Siberia and the first known human on the Tibetan Plateau? (2019-06-07)
... that Mária Kráľovičová was the first Slovak television actress? (2019-06-07)
... that three players for the U.S. women's national soccer team have scored hat-tricks in the FIFA Women's World Cup, including Carli Lloyd (pictured) in the 2015 final? (2019-06-07)
... that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies? (2019-06-07)
... that the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy was inspired to write Silver Wedding after hearing a girl on a bus talk about her parents' horrible marriage? (2019-06-06)
... that Lydia Manley Henry, the first woman to graduate from the University of Sheffield medical school, was awarded the Croix de Guerre? (2019-06-06)
... that the first three singles released by Japanese musician Halca were used as closing themes for three different anime series? (2019-06-06)
... that Meghan Trainor's song "All About That Bass" was written in 40 minutes? (2019-06-06)
... that Madame Wellington Koo (pictured), the Chinese-Indonesian First Lady of pre-communist China, was featured as a "woman of style" in a 2015 fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? (2019-06-05)
... that Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun helped kickstart the World Bank's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit? (2019-06-05)
... that Megumi Nakajima became so associated with her role as Ranka Lee in the anime series Macross Frontier that she feared she would be unable to establish her own identity as a voice actress? (2019-06-05)
... that although her mother never cooked, Violet Oon learned to cook Peranakan food at the age of sixteen before eventually being appointed the food ambassador of Singapore? (2019-06-04)
... that Australian rules footballer Tyla Hanks set a record in the agility component at the 2018 AFL Women's draft combine? (2019-06-03)
... that Barbie likes welding? (2019-06-03)
... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"? (2019-06-02)
... that Nancy Pelosi (pictured) is the only woman to have served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the first former Speaker to return to the post since 1955? (2019-06-02)
... that no woman was chosen as a major political party's nominee for the United States Senate until Ruth Hanna McCormick won her state's primary in 1930? (2019-06-01)
... that the deep-sea coral species Gersemia juliepackardae was named for Julie Packard (pictured), executive director of Monterey Bay Aquarium, for her work as an ocean conservationist? (2019-05-31)
... that the soprano Elżbieta Szmytka recorded Chopin's Polish songs and performed in Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, celebrating a century of Polish independence? (2019-05-30)
... that when she took office last year, Kate Gallego was the youngest and the only woman mayor of any of the ten largest cities in the United States? (2019-05-29)
... that before she became an expert on wild animals, Hope Ryden was an international flight attendant and used her long layovers to observe wildlife in Africa and Asia? (2019-05-27)
... that Hannelore Elsner, who first appeared in film in 1959, received international attention for her role in No Place to Go at the Cannes Festival in 2000? (2019-05-25)
... that Marie C. Brehm scolded an audience for spreading disease by waving handkerchiefs at a temperance meeting? (2019-05-24)
... that Celestina Casapietra, an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera, and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s? (2019-05-24)
... that newly elected Israeli Knesset member Omer Yankelevich was named for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, her birthday? (2019-05-23)
... that field hockey and lacrosse head instructor Fay Biles became the most successful coach in Kent State University history? (2019-05-23)
... that film pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché, Georges Méliès, and Charlie Chaplin all made films about women's suffrage? (2019-05-22)
... that bailiffs who heard champion bubblegum-blower Susan Montgomery Williams popping gum in a courthouse hallway thought a .38 caliber pistol had been discharged? (2019-05-22)
... that approximately 4,000 handmade personalised patchwork skirts have been registered as official national liberation skirts (example pictured) in the Netherlands? (2019-05-22)
... that Princess Natalya Golitsyna (pictured) acquired the nicknames the "Moscow Venus" and the "Queen of Spades"? (2019-05-21)
... that Mongolian-Chinese actress Yong Mei won the Silver Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival for her portrayal of a mother who lost her only son? (2019-05-20)
... that Mary Stuart Fisher, a Temple University professor of radiology who was named Physician of the Year in 1996, was discouraged from following her chosen career path by her father, a physician himself? (2019-05-19)
... that Wenona Giles helped 59 people in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, earn a Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies from Canada's York University? (2019-05-17)
... that the girls of the Mädchenkantorei Limburg joined a women's choir to perform sacred choral music by contemporary composers at a 2019 concert in Limburg Cathedral? (2019-05-17)
... that for the first six months that Janis Ian performed the song "At Seventeen", she closed her eyes because she was afraid the audience would laugh at her? (2019-05-17)
... that Australian rules footballer Haneen Zreika is the first Muslim to play in the AFL Women's? (2019-05-16)
... that in 1987, Royal Society of Canada fellow Kathryn Brush was one of the first women to be hired for a full-time position in art history at the University of Western Ontario? (2019-05-15)
... that the dancer and cabaret artist Hedi Schoop emigrated to California with her husband, the composer Friedrich Hollaender, where she created and manufactured pottery? (2019-05-14)
... that Redoshi (pictured), a West African woman who lived in Alabama and died in 1937, was the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade? (2019-05-12)
... that Oriana Wilson discovered a new species of bat, which was then named after her? (2019-05-12)
... that, inspired at a young age by Polish footballer Roman Kosecki of Galatasaray S.K. in Turkey, Nurcan Çelik became a player and later established her own football club? (2019-05-11)
... that Margaret Hayden Rorke named the color of Mamie Eisenhower's inaugural ball gown (pictured) "First Lady Pink"? (2019-05-10)
... that imaging scientist Katie Bouman first learned of the Event Horizon Telescope in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later? (2019-05-10, 2019-08-10)
... that Vera Deakin's missing persons bureau issued 400,000 responses to enquiries from the families of Australian soldiers during World War I? (2019-05-09)
... that Satya Rhodes-Conway is the first openly gay politician to serve as Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin? (2019-05-09)
... that Japanese singer Alisa Takigawa's debut song "Season" was originally a demo that was not intended to be her debut release? (2019-05-08)
... that 53,034 people attended the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final, a record for a standalone women's sporting event in Australia? (2019-05-08)
... that in 1990, Forbes named Carmen Thomas one of the 100 most influential women in Germany for running Hallo Ü-Wagen, a weekly travelling talk radio show with audience participation? (2019-05-07)
... that pianist Wu Yili made her public debut in her teens, released her first album in her 70s, and went viral in her 80s? (2019-05-06)
... that Katja Wulff (drawing shown) of Hamburg, who learned expressionist dance from Rudolf von Laban, was still running her dance school in Basel at the age of 90? (2019-05-05)
... that Meghan Trainor's 2014 song "I'll Be Home" did not debut on the Austrian charts until January 2019? (2019-05-05)
... that newly-elected parliamentarian Gadeer Mreeh will be the first Druze woman to serve as a member of the Israeli Knesset? (2019-05-05)
... that Australian rules footballer Eleanor Brown was also a netballer and cross country runner in her junior career? (2019-05-05)
... that in 2008, ethnohistorian Jennifer S. H. Brown was the first woman from the University of Winnipeg to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada? (2019-05-04)
... that Liselotte Hammes, a soprano with the Cologne Opera, appeared as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival alongside Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and Montserrat Caballé as the Marschallin? (2019-05-03)
... that after a spinal cord injury, Marni Abbott-Peter won three Paralympic gold medals with the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team? (2019-05-02)
... that Stella Abidh is believed to be the first Indo-Trinidadian woman to become a medical doctor? (2019-04-30)
... that Rosl Schwaiger appeared as Mozart's Blonde at the Salzburg Festival in 1945 and the Glyndebourne Festival in 1957? (2019-04-30)
... that Western Australia was held scoreless in the pool A final at the 2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships? (2019-04-30)
... that XHCDMX-FM, operated by a consortium of women's organizations and activists, is the first community radio station in Mexico City? (2019-04-28)
... that Kathleen Hite, scriptwriter for Gunsmoke, accepted a job as a secretary at CBS so she could badger company officials into letting her write? (2019-04-28)
... that former astrophysicist Alejandra Melfo now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier? (2019-04-28)
... that Emma Ghent Curtis's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage? (2019-04-27)
... that Ann Wroe has written The Economist's obituaries since 2003, with subjects including Prince, Arthur Miller, and Osama bin Laden? (2019-04-27)
... that an original work by artist Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival? (2019-04-26)
... that Georgina Pazcoguin of the New York City Ballet co-founded an initiative to combat Asian stereotypes in ballet productions such as The Nutcracker? (2019-04-26)
... that while investigating the case of Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared 10 years ago today, the FBI brought federal charges against someone who had already served state probation for the same crime? (2019-04-25)
... that Indra Devi helped publicise yoga for women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities as her pupils? (2019-04-24)
... that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a Queen of Tonga? (2019-04-24)
... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail? (2019-04-23)
... that Rachel Koopmans was part of a research team which discovered that two stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral dated to the 1180s? (2019-04-22)
... that Venezuelan journalist Fabiana Rosales (pictured) has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for her husband's opposition party, towards resolving the crisis in Venezuela? (2019-04-22)
... that Margit Schramm appeared as Hanna Glawari, the "merry widow" in Lehár's operetta, more than 500 times? (2019-04-21)
... that a columnist for the British Internet magazine Spiked created the fictional Twitter user Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary "woke culture"? (2019-04-19)
... that Sophie Alexander was concussed in her first AFL Women's match? (2019-04-19)
... that Ivorian special advisor Euphrasie Kouassi Yao has worked as a UNESCO chair for Water, Women and Decision-making, and has been honoured by the Global Platform for Enterprising Women? (2019-04-18)
... that at the Queen Charlotte's Ball, debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake? (2019-04-17)
... that American artist Lydia Purdy Hess, best known for her Portrait of Miss E. H., sketched and painted while floating on the Ohio River during her two-month honeymoon? (2019-04-17)
... that, inspired at the age of five by her football-playing brother, Dilan Ağgül became a footballer in Germany and later played for the Turkey women's national team? (2019-04-16)
... that Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition? (2019-04-15)
... that Michelle Obama promised George W. Bush that she would rescue his presidential portrait from a fire? (2019-04-14)
... that Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist Gene Ritchie Monahan is known for work that Sigurd Olson said "caught the details of the changing seasons"? (2019-04-14)
... that Mexican federal deputy Nay Salvatori invited the public to "smoke marijuana at my house and listen to The Doors" if the drug was legalized in Mexico, despite never having smoked it herself? (2019-04-13)
... that Tsutomu Kawabuchi was referred to as the "father of Japanese women's ice hockey"? (2019-04-12)
... that Indian social worker Sharda Mehta organised a protest against indentured servitude in 1917? (2019-04-12)
... that Meghan Trainor requested the removal of her song "Me Too" from Vevo, due to unapproved digital manipulation of her body in the video? (2019-04-12)
... that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister? (2019-04-10)
... that American novelist Pearl Doles Bell (pictured) traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus for six weeks to research her 1919 novel Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring? (2019-04-09)
... that photographer Nydia Blas has said she is intrigued by the use of photography to influence public opinion, for example the use of photographs by anti-lynching activists? (2019-04-09)
... that according to research led by Dana Lepofsky, some clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old? (2019-04-09)
... that Raphaëlle Boitel worked as a contortionist street performer at age eight to earn tuition for circus school? (2019-04-08)
... that the storyline of Holby City's two-part episode "A Simple Lie" was compared to the Charlie Gard case? (2019-04-08)
... that medieval historian Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in Catalonia and Valencia co-existed due to religious segregation? (2019-04-07)
... that Order of Australia recipient Helen Brownlee was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the Australian Olympic Committee? (2019-04-06)
... that Cynthia García Coll from Puerto Rico has researched the psychological resilience of children born to teen mothers and of immigrant children? (2019-04-06)
... that Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and replaced by a male editor when two different newspapers replaced their women’s sections with features sections? (2019-04-05)
... that, at age 60, Carrie Langston Hughes made her Broadway debut as Sister Susie May Hunt in Hall Johnson's Run Little Chillun? (2019-04-04)
... that Eleanor Barrow Chase was instrumental in getting Eastern Washington University admitted to the Big Sky Conference in 1987? (2019-04-03)
... that Sabine Hyland discovered that the Incas may have written phonetic information in knotted cords called khipus? (2019-04-02)
... that a bronze statue co-created by Fiona Peever apparently stepped off its pedestal (pictured) and sat down on some nearby steps? (2019-04-01)
... that activist Linda Sarsour (pictured) was a leader of the 2017 Women's March and the 2019 Women's March? (2019-03-31)
... that the Indian Member of Parliament Anju Bala believes that violence against cows can be curbed by declaring it the national animal of India? (2019-03-31)
... that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro? (2019-03-30)
... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80? (2019-03-30)
... that jams made by French chocolatier Christine Ferber (pictured) are sold in Tokyo Isetan department stores, each wrapped in red cloth with a white bow? (2019-03-30)
... that when Riko Azuna auditioned to perform the opening theme to the anime series Bloom Into You, all she knew about the series was that it focuses on love between two girls? (2019-03-29)
... that Jane Somerville has "Unicorns" all around the world? (2019-03-29)
... that Sumiko Hennessy, a co-founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center in Denver, Colorado, has taught courses for corporate executives about Asian cultures and "stress management Asian-style"? (2019-03-28)
... that when Elly Mayday (pictured) was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she not only continued to model, but appeared in pictorials with a bald head from chemotherapy and surgery scars? (2019-03-28)
... that when Barbara Low and Dorothy Hodgkin determined the structure of penicillin in 1945, it was the largest molecule ever to be successfully investigated by X-ray crystallography? (2019-03-28)
... that in 2018 Lydia Steier, born in Hartford, Connecticut, became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival? (2019-03-27)
... that Abby Cubillo is the first woman born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in the Women's National Basketball League? (2019-03-27)
... that Swedish singer Sophia Somajo released her second album via The Pirate Bay? (2019-03-26)
... that Brazilian-born Catarina Macario won three American college soccer awards in the same year? (2019-03-26)
... that after her son, U.S. Coast Guard signalman Douglas Albert Munro, was killed in battle, 48-year-old Edith Munro (pictured) joined the Coast Guard herself? (2019-03-25)
... that Bekah Brunstetter's play The Cake, about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter's opposition to same-sex marriage? (2019-03-25)
... that while on hiatus from her beach volleyball career, Sanne Keizer completed a master's degree in criminal investigation and worked as a police detective? (2019-03-24)
... that an award for women journalists in India is named after a Jain freedom fighter? (2019-03-24)
... that Washington lands commissioner Hilary Franz was a competitive ice skater as a teenager? (2019-03-23)
... that among the live venues Japanese singer and voice actress Aimi performed at prior to her major debut was a steakhouse? (2019-03-23)
... that the soprano Margit Bokor (pictured) created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House? (2019-03-22)
... that Nickey Barclay played with Fanny, Cocker, and Ball? (2019-03-21)
... that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall, and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli? (2019-03-20)
... that a series of articles by investigative journalist Ida Tarbell (pictured) in 1902 led to the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly? (2019-03-19)
... that Danielle Ponter is the first member of the Rioli–Long family – described as one of "footy's most famous dynasties" – to play top-level women's Australian rules football? (2019-03-18)
... that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language? (2019-03-17)
... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year? (2019-03-17)
... that the 2019 book We Are Displaced by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai (pictured) tells the stories of ten displaced girls, including herself? (2019-03-16)
... that researchers Eileen Shore and Frederick Kaplan discovered the mutation responsible for a disease that turns muscle into bone? (2019-03-15)
... that Amina Gerba's (pictured) beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso? (2019-03-14)
... that Véronique Aka (pictured) was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council? (2019-03-13)
... that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge? (2019-03-13)
... that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs? (2019-03-12)
... that Zuzana Marková's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding? (2019-03-11)
... that Nao Tōyama (pictured), whose solo singles have been used as theme songs for anime series on television and in film, was tone-deaf as a girl? (2019-03-11)
... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels? (2019-03-11)
... that Amy Shuler Goodwin is the first woman to serve as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia? (2019-03-11)
... that Alma Webster Powell earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career? (2019-03-11)
... that Ruthilde Boesch, who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera, made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist? (2019-03-10)
... that sexual-health doctor Mags Portman and activist Greg Owen worked together to provide accessible HIV medication, preventing thousands of new HIV infections in the United Kingdom? (2019-03-10)
... that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight? (2019-03-09)
... that Wang Yening helped establish China's first specialization in X-ray metal physics? (2019-03-08)
... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament? (2019-03-08)
... that for Vida, Tanya Saracho assembled an all-Latinx, "heavily queer" writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color? (2019-03-08)
... that Janell Cannon's children's book Stellaluna won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album? (2019-03-08)
... that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award-winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan? (2019-03-08)
... that at the height of her opera career Marlise Wendels sometimes sang in up to 300 performances in a single season? (2019-03-08)
... that when arrested for performing illegal abortions, members of the Jane Collective protected their clients' identities by swallowing their names and contact information? (2019-03-08)
... that Elizabeth Webber Harris is the only woman to receive a Victoria Cross, though hers was a replica given by permission of Queen Victoria? (2019-03-08)
... that Caroline Katzenstein (pictured) began campaigning for women's suffrage in 1910 and, once the vote was granted, focused on supporting the Equal Rights Amendment – which is still not ratified today? (2019-03-08)
... that 18-year-old Ashwathi Pillai is the youngest-ever winner of the Swedish Senior National Championship in badminton? (2019-03-08)
... that 1920s Broadway star Adele Astaire taught dance steps to Prince Edward, played backgammon with Winston Churchill, and proposed to an English nobleman in an American speakeasy? (2019-03-08)
... that the Central Committee on Women's Employment was founded to help British women who were out of work due to the First World War? (2019-03-07)
... that Yvonne Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry? (2019-03-06)
... that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt, and Anwar Sadat? (2019-03-06)
... that the 1961 book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber told the story of Ishi (pictured), the last known member of the Yahi people? (2019-03-06)
... that Dua Lipa's character transforms into Alita at the end of her "Swan Song" music video? (2019-03-06)
... that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson removed a patient's ovary on the kitchen table in their own home? (2019-03-06)
... that convicted assassin Anastasia Bitsenko was one of the seven Soviet delegates to the German-Soviet peace negotiations in World War I? (2019-03-06)
... that Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth did not like her sport at first, describing it as "some kind of a daily torture"? (2019-03-05)
... that 18th-century British actress Mary Bulkley (pictured) was once hissed by her audience because she had "taken the son of her long-term lover to her bed"? (2019-03-05)
... that Lulu Grace Graves was co-founder and first president of the American Dietetic Association when it formed in 1917? (2019-03-05)
... that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds, faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her? (2019-03-05)
... that Penny Rafferty Hamilton proposed 101 strategies to increase the participation of women in aviation? (2019-03-04)
... that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune, and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira? (2019-03-04)
... that singer Bracha Zefira (pictured) is credited with bringing Yemenite and other Oriental Jewish folk songs into the mix of ethnic music in Palestine to create a new "Israeli style"? (2019-03-03)
... that in 2019, millions of women came together to form a 620 km-long (390 mi) women's wall in the Indian state of Kerala? (2019-03-02)
... that actress Georgina Naidu premiered her one-woman show Yellowfeather in 2005 at the Sydney Opera House? (2019-03-02)
... that Elena Ivanovna Barulina's 1930 paper became a standard guide to lentils (seeds pictured)? (2019-03-02)
... that journalist Dorothy Jurney was called "the godmother of women's pages"? (2019-03-02)
... that 19th-century actress Alice Marriott (pictured) played Hamlet in doublet and hose in British and American theatre, and "made the female Hamlet respectable in England"? (2019-03-01)
... that Chuang Shu-chi was the first licensed female practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan? (2019-02-28)
... that Reina Ueda voiced 18 sisters in the anime series Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono? (2019-02-27)
... that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro, and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute? (2019-02-27)
... that Ambrosia Tønnesen is regarded as the first professional female sculptor in Norway? (2019-02-27)
... that among the Mozart roles sung by soprano Sophie Karthäuser (pictured) are Ilia, Tamiri, and Serpetta? (2019-02-26)
... that Nina Morrison was nominated for the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award on debut – but suffered a season-ending knee injury in training the next week? (2019-02-26)
... that Edris Allan, the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan, the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted? (2019-02-26)
... that Freeman Dyson used a result by Marian Pour-El on the mathematical undecidability of the wave equation as evidence for the superiority of analog to digital forms of life? (2019-02-25)
... that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities? (2019-02-25)
... that Isabel Chan is part of the singing trio MKB48, whose full name is Mega Karaoke Bitches 48? (2019-02-25)
... that professional world barrel-racing champion Hailey Kinsel won $433,333.33 in one day at the American Rodeo in February 2017? (2019-02-25)
... that hand-spinning writer Abby Franquemont (pictured) spent her early childhood in Peru, where women "spun to eat and pay for the home they lived in"? (2019-02-25)
... that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie, one of the first all-black talkies? (2019-02-24)
... that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a drug cartel? (2019-02-23)
... that during the Second World War, Rachel Dübendorfer received sensitive German military information, including plans for the German invasion of the USSR? (2019-02-23)
... that African-American rapper Leikeli47 always masks her face while performing, saying it makes her feel "free"? (2019-02-23)
... that Marika Kouno was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting by Ikue Ōtani, who plays Pikachu in Pokémon? (2019-02-22)
... that Genia Kühmeier appeared as Mozart's Pamina at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and recorded the soprano solo in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt? (2019-02-22)
... that, playing in 1887, Emily Valentine is the first documented female rugby player? (2019-02-22)
... that, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"? (2019-02-22)
... that "Pramadaavanam", a weekly column by Malathi Chendur (pictured), was published uninterruptedly for 47 years? (2019-02-21)
... that musician Taina Asili studied opera and fronted a hardcore punk band before starting the Afro-Caribbean group La Banda Rebelde? (2019-02-20)
... that Jennie Jackson, an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Queen Victoria? (2019-02-20)
... that Shubulade Smith has spoken up against perceived racism at Maudsley Hospital? (2019-02-19)
... that Louise Creighton and Kathleen Lyttelton founded the Cambridge University Ladies Dining Society in 1890 "not without an idea of retaliating on the husbands who dined in College"? (2019-02-18)
... that Hilda Ranscombe (pictured) captained a team that won ten consecutive Ladies Ontario Hockey Association championships? (2019-02-18)
... that Maria Guajardo's doctoral dissertation on educational attainment among Latina teens led to her hiring as Dropout Prevention Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education? (2019-02-17)
... that Megan Marie Hart has performed on stage in Detmold, Germany, as Puccini's Tosca and was soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony? (2019-02-16)
... that the name of the Japanese idol group Crown Pop was not made public until their live debut? (2019-02-16)
... that in 2017, the Tucson Girls Chorus opened the city's first public choir for girls and boys with special needs? (2019-02-15)
... that some sources believe Adele Spitzeder (pictured) created the first documented Ponzi scheme in 1869? (2019-02-15)
... that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, once a war refugee, founded a nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates? (2019-02-14)
... that the work of physician Elizabeth Ross is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country? (2019-02-14)
... that when Willem Kloos said to Jacques Perk that they were the only two young talented poets in the Netherlands, Perk mentioned his childhood friend Augusta Peaux as a third? (2019-02-13)
... that soprano Ildikó Raimondi, who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in more than 40 roles including Pamina and Mimì, sang the role of Marzelline in the opening season of the Valencia Opera? (2019-02-12)
... that after a mastectomy ended her professional modeling career, Sue Miller assembled a fashion show featuring only models who have had breast cancer? (2019-02-11)
... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)? (2019-02-10)
... that Juan Gabriel's own cover of "Así Fue", which he originally composed for Isabel Pantoja, was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States? (2019-02-08)
... that Alexina Maude Wildman's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s? (2019-02-08)
... that NASA exobiologist Darlene Lim studies underwater volcanoes and desert stations in the Canadian High Arctic to prepare humans for missions to Mars? (2019-02-07)
... that Victoria Loke, who had a role in Crazy Rich Asians, has advocated for the rights of sex workers and domestic workers? (2019-02-06)
... that Nazo Dharejo fought off 200 bandits in a gun battle that earned her a reputation as "Pakistan's toughest woman"? (2019-02-06)
... that Chinese millionaire merchant Chun Afong (pictured) made his fortune in the "Sandalwood Mountains" and had sixteen children with a descendant of Hawaiian royalty? (2019-02-05)
... that top National Hockey League prospects Quinn and Jack Hughes learned how to skate from their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, a world championship silver medalist? (2019-02-05)
... that in 1956, German civil servant Erica Pappritz co-wrote a book on etiquette which included sections on correct odour and on how Bonn diplomats liked to carry umbrellas? (2019-02-04)
... that an interview with Sammy Woodhouse sparked an inquiry revealing the sexual abuse of about 1,400 children in Rotherham, England, between 1997 and 2013? (2019-02-03)
... that in 1909, Ivy Woodward became the first female member of the Royal College of Physicians? (2019-02-02)
... that Zura Karuhimbi saved the lives of more than 100 refugees during the Rwandan genocide by pretending to be a witch? (2019-02-01)
... that Mamie Shields Pyle was instrumental in winning the right to vote for women in South Dakota? (2019-02-01)
... that Cemile Timur founded, played for, and now coaches a football club recently promoted to the Turkish Women's First League? (2019-02-01)
... that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a professional wrestling bout involving Lady Shani went off script? (2019-01-31)
... that during the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany (pictured), their alcoholic chaperone Robert Ley crashed them at speed through a factory gate? (2019-01-30)
... that catwalk model Michelle Leslie claimed police in Bali, Indonesia, planted two ecstasy tablets in her handbag and then asked for a US$25,000 bribe to avoid conviction? (2019-01-29)
... that Meghan Trainor canceled several dates on the MTrain Tour after suffering a vocal cord hemorrhage? (2019-01-29)
... that at age 17, the English actress Emily Lloyd reportedly beat over 5,000 others, including Jodie Foster, for the lead role in the 1989 film Cookie? (2019-01-27)
... that the superhero form of the fictional character Marinette Dupain-Cheng was based on a woman wearing a ladybug-themed T-shirt who once worked with the creator of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir? (2019-01-26)
... that Marianne Schech appeared as the Dyer's Wife in the U.S. premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the San Francisco Opera? (2019-01-26)
... that the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers was written partially in response to a comment by Thomas Beecham who said, "There are no women composers, never have been and possibly never will be"? (2019-01-26)
... that Denver community activist Arlene Hirschfeld lives in Shangri-La? (2019-01-26)
... that Jennifer Lawrence was so anxious about performing "The Hanging Tree" in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 that she wanted to lip sync to a professional singer? (2019-01-24)
... that in 1901, French feminist writer Marie-Louise Gagneur was awarded the Legion of Honour? (2019-01-24)
... that Beyoncé wore an Inbal Dror wedding gown to the 2016 Grammy Awards? (2019-01-22)
... that on 20 January 1990, Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on Nakhichevan television? (2019-01-20)
... that American suffragists arrested for protesting at the White House later toured the country on the Prison Special while dressed in their prison uniforms (Lucy Branham pictured)? (2019-01-20)
... that Gwen Grant Mellon, who co-founded a hospital for the poor in Haiti, was buried in a cardboard box? (2019-01-20)
... that in her second novel, Echoes, Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967? (2019-01-18)
... that 79 pages of Robin Coste Lewis's anthology Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems are devoted to the titular poem, which consists of "titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions" depicting the black female form in Western art? (2019-01-17)
... that American suffragist Annie Nowlin Savery came into conflict with some woman suffragists because she supported free love? (2019-01-17)
... that Israeli scholar Esther Farbstein and a colleague discovered more than 100 personal Holocaust accounts in rabbinical works, a resource previously overlooked by Holocaust researchers? (2019-01-16)
... that in 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected as a non-hereditary head of government in modern history? (2019-01-14)
... that Portugal international footballer Melissa Antunes teaches at a university and started a sports agency? (2019-01-14)
... that Marvel Comics' chief creative officer Joe Quesada made his directorial debut with the first episode of the digital series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot? (2019-01-14)
... that the Swiss-German spy Carmen Mory, later a Nazi concentration camp kapo, was described as a "third-rate Mata Hari"? (2019-01-13)
... that the final work of artist Monica Ross was completed on the day of her death? (2019-01-12)
... that voice actress Yukari Anzai was appointed as a Japanese ambassador for the hot springs of Hsinchu County in Taiwan? (2019-01-11)
... that the writer of the play Why We Have a Body was inspired by Harriet the Spy, whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered? (2019-01-11)
... that Nagammai organised women to picket the toddy shops in Erode during the temperance movement in India? (2019-01-10)
... that Melani Leimena Suharli, the daughter of the founder of the Indonesian Christian Party, is Muslim? (2019-01-09)
... that photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo was described by Alfonso Michel as Mexico's most important painter? (2019-01-09)
... that suspected hitwoman Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to Our Lady of Holy Death? (2019-01-08)
... that Denmark won the 1971 Women's World Cup, an unofficial association football tournament, after 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen scored all three goals in the final? (2019-01-08)
... that Second World War Jewish resistance fighter Sonia Orbuch was originally named Sarah, but was renamed to sound more Russian? (2019-01-07)
... that the red ochre sprinkled on the body of Jane Britton (pictured) 50 years ago today ultimately turned out to be a red herring in solving her murder? (2019-01-07)
... that food writer Melissa Clark elicited disapproving tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor Jeb Bush for her recipe for guacamole with green peas? (2019-01-05)
... that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term "outlaw country" by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings? (2019-01-04)
... that 16-year-old Greta Thunberg (pictured) of Sweden has inspired 20,000 students around the world to strike for climate change activism? (2019-01-02)
... that Gujarati writer Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems? (2019-01-01)