“In my imagination I walk through our Dayton home, looking for [Orville] and all the dear family things that made my home. But I never find [Orville], and I have lost my old home forever, I fear.” 912: Katharine Wright Haskell Most Known for Being the Sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright Born: 19 August…
“I will not resign myself to the lot of women, who bow their heads and become concubines. I wish to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I have no desire to take abuse.” 911: Lady Triệu Vietnamese Warrior who Fended Off the Chinese Born: c.222-245 AD, Present-day Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam Died:…
910: Annis Stockton One of the First Female Poets to be Published in the Thirteen Colonies of the Future United States Born: 1 July 1736, The Colony of Pennsylvania (Present-day Darby, Pennsylvania, United States of America) Died: 6 February 1801, Fieldsboro, New Jersey, United States of America Full Name: Annis Boudinot Stockton Annis published her…
909: Lady Jane Franklin Sponsored Many Voyages to Explore and Map the Arctic Born: 4 December 1791, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom) Died: 18 July 1875, London, United Kingdom Jane’s mother died when she was young. Her father was a silk merchant who educated his daughter in the bare minimum most girls received at the…
“She was harassed.They beat up her car. They threatened her with rape. They threatened to burn her house down. After she would land, they were always there waiting.” (Candalyn’s mother’s account of what happened to her daughter after taking the Eastern Airline job). 908: Candalyn Kubeck One of the First Female Commercial Airline Pilots Born:…
“It can be assumed that I am widowed. I haven’t however received an official letter informing me of the death of my husband, who was supposed to be executed.” 907: Mildred Fish-Harnack The Only American Woman Executed by the Germans in World War II Born: 6 September 1902, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America Died:…
906: Captain Dorothy Stratton Commanding Officer of the United States Coast Guard’s SPARs Program Born: 24 March 1899, Brookfield, Missouri, United States of America Died: 17 September 2006, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America First, I feel it necessary to say do not, and I mean DO NOT, confuse this Dorothy with the Playboy…
“If he’d stayed, I’d have looked after him.” 905: Emilie Schindler Most Known for Being Oskar Schindler’s Wife Born: 22 October 1907, Alt Moletein, Republic of Czechoslovakia (Present-day Stary Maletin, Czech Republic) Died: 5 October 2001, Strausberg, Germany Emilie should be better known for helping to save over 1,200 Jews during The Shoah. Emilie was…
“Love all, trust few, and do right.” 904: Dr. Olivia Hooker The First African American Woman to Enter the US Coast Guard Born: 12 February 1915, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States of America Died: 21 November 2018, White Plains, New York, United States of America Olivia enlisted in 1945 and worked in the SPARs Program, also…
903: Catherine of Valois Used as a Political Tool to Hand France to England During the Hundred Years’ War Born: 27 October 1401, Paris, France Died: 2 January 1437, Bermondsey Abbey, London, England (Present-day Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom) Catherine’s marriage to Henry V legitimized his claim to be king of England and France and made…