882: Dorothy Vaughan One of NASA’s Hidden Figures Born: 20 September 1910, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America Died: 10 November 2008, Hampton, Virginia, United States of America Dorothy received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics in 1929. Dorothy was a math teacher in Virginia before World War II struck. In 1943, she took what…
“Was I not a girl I would be a Soldier!” 881: Margaret Ann Bulkley One of The First European Doctors to Perform a Successful C-Section Born: c.1789-1795, Cork, Ireland (Present-day Cork, Republic of Ireland) Died: 25 July 1865, London, United Kingdom Also Known As: Dr. James Barry Margaret’s medical feat occurred while serving in Cape…
880: Isabella Hagner James The First Person Employed by a First Lady of the United States Born: 1876, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America Died: 1 November 1943, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America Also Known As: Belle Hagner When Isabella was a child, the man who would assassinate President Garfield befriended her…
879: Clara de la Rocha Soldadera in the Mexican Revolution Birth Date Unknown, Durango, Mexico Died: 1 June 1970, Culiacán Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico Clara was a Mexican Revolutionary who helped seize Culiacán. She achieved the rank of Colonel, but little else is known about her. According to a distant relative, Clara once attacked a power…
878: Asia Ramazan Antar Teenage Warrior Born: 1997, Al-Quamshili, Syria Died: 30 August 2016, Near Manbij, Syria Also Known As: Viyan Antar Asia served with the YPJ (Women’s Protection Units Fighter), a Kurdish group primarily known for fighting to eliminate the Islamic State from the world (and fight to see the Kurds have a country…
877: Christine Granville World War II Spy Born: 1 May 1908, Poland Died: 15 June 1952, Earl’s Court, Chelsea, United Kingdom Original Name: Krystyna Skarbek Christine’s father was a member of the Polish aristocracy and her mother had been born to a Jewish banking family and therefore was seen as lower class (because Anti-Semitism was…
876: Annie Moore Schayer The First Immigrant to Come Through Ellis Island Immigration Station Born: 24 April 1874, County Cork, Ireland (Present-day County Cork, Republic of Ireland) Died: 6 December 1924, New York City, New York, United States of America Annie was seventeen years old and traveling with two younger brothers when she arrived in…
875: Margaret Pole Her Family Had Risen So Far, and They Fell So Low Born: 14 August 1473, Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, England (Present-day Somerset, United Kingdom) Died: 27 May 1541, Tower of London, London, England (Present-day Tower of London, London, United Kingdom) Margaret was one of two women in her time to hold an…
874: Anne Neville The Last Plantagenet Queen of England Born: 10 June 1456, Warwickshire, England (Present-day Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom) Died: 16 March 1485, Westminster, England (Present-day Westminster, England, United Kingdom) Even though Anne was a queen of England, very little information about her survives to this day. No portraits have been deemed “reliable” or…
873: Margaret Heffernan Borland Drove 1000 Longhorns Along the Chisholm Trail Born: 3 April 1824, Ireland* Died: 5 July 1873, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America Margaret was one of the first female cattle drivers in the United States. She immigrated from Ireland at the age of five. Margaret was married and was widowed three…