688: Susan Wojcicki Former CEO of YouTube Born: 5 July 1968, Santa Clara, California, United States of America Died: 9 August 2024, Palo Alto, California, United States of America Susan also helped found Google and was their first marketing manager. She was their sixteenth employee and it was her garage that served as their first…
“I don’t want to think about little Yvonne. No. I put an end to it. I want to live in the present, that’s all.” 602: Yvonne Dionne The First of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada Died: 23 June 2001, Montreal, Canada The…
“It was that word ‘hallucinations’ that made everything click. Years and years ago, when I was a little kid, I had read about the French case of ergot poisoning, and I made the connection between the two.” 595: Linnda Caporael She Proposed Ergot Poisoning Led to the Salem Witch Trials Birth Date and Location Unknown…
“The family has been demanding a Toyota Qualis. I had spent about Rs 7 lakh in the marriage and was not in a position to give any more. She was repeatedly humiliated and harassed by [her husband] over dowry.” “They killed my daughter in a planned manner. How can she hang herself from a door’s…
“It took your breath away when you realized what it was that you were looking at. It was beautiful to me and very precious.” 547: Sarah Anzick Molecular Biologist at the National Institute of Health Born: c.1966, Montana, United States of America When Sarah was two years old, the remains of a 12,600-year-old male toddler…
546: Dorothy Garrod Archaeologist and The First Woman to Hold an Oxford Chair Born: 5 May 1892, London, United Kingdom Died: 18 December 1968, Cambridge, United Kingdom This meant Dorothy was the first female professor at Oxford. Almost ten years earlier, she had also become the first female professor at Cambridge. She was a pioneer…
535: Vivian (Bullwinkel) Statham The Only Survivor of the Bangka Island Massacre Born: 18 December 1915, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia Died: 3 July 2000, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Vivian enlisted in the Australia Army Nursing Service in 1941 and was quickly posted to a hospital in Malaya. The hospital was soon moved to Singapore, before…
534: Irene Drummond The Head Nurse Killed in the Bangka Island Massacre Born: 26 July 1905, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia Died: 16 February 1942, Bangka Island, Indonesia Before the war, Irene was a nurse in the surgical and obstetrics fields along with serving as assistant and acting matron in various hospitals. She was appointed…
493: Trisha Prabhu Computer Coder Who Appeared on Shark Tank Born: c.2000 Trisha is an inventor and holds the patent for her ReThink Technology which helps detect and stop online hate. In 2016, Trisha was invited to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. As of 2019 she is an undergraduate student at Harvard University and…
489: Margaret Floy Washburn The First Woman to Earn a PhD in Psychology Born: 25 July 1871, New York City, New York, United States of America Died: 29 October 1939, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America Sources differ on where she earned her degree from. Psychology’s Feminist Voices and the National Women’s History Museum…