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…
“From that time on, (May 1943), all mothers gave birth at the concentration camp’s hospital. Some mothers were sent to the crematorium together with their infants immediately after they gave birth. The vision of those women each carrying her child wrapped in paper, sometimes on a winter day, to the place of execution, was terrible.” 682: Stanisława Leszczyńska…
“I can’t say the brassiere will ever take as great a place in history as the steamboat, but I did invent it.” 673: Caresse Crosby The First Person to Patent the Modern Brassiere Born: 20 April 1891, New Rochelle, New York, United States of America Died: 24 January 1970, Rome, Italy Original Name: Mary Phelps…
658: Dr. Oriana Moon Andrews The First Female Confederate Doctor and Surgeon Born: 11 August 1834, Scottsville, Virginia, United States of America Died: 24 December 1883, Scottsville, Virginia, United States of America Oriana’s father believed in his daughters receiving an equal education to his sons. Oriana and her sisters read extensively from their father’s library…
655: Hannah Anderson Ropes War Between the States Nurse and Abolitionist Born: 13 June 1809, New Gloucester, Maine, United States of America Died: 20 January 1863, Washington DC, United States of America Hannah’s parents were wealthy enough to provide her with a fine education at home. She was also raised to be a good Christian….
647: Mary Mallon And This is Why Quarantine and Ethical Treatment Are So Important Born: 23 September 1869, Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Died: 11 November 1938, The Bronx, New York, United States of America Also Known As: Typhoid Mary After immigrating to New York City from Ireland, Mary took on the job of being…
“Nobody is going to want me because I’m short and ugly.” 638: Dr. Ruth Westheimer Sexologist Known Affectionately as Dr. Ruth Born: 4 June 1928, Frankfurt, Germany Died: 12 July 2024, Manhattan, New York, United States of America Original Name: Karola Ruth Siegel Dr. Ruth was a media personality in radio and TV and a…
“When the war broke out, many people fled from Mogadishu. I welcomed them. It was not planned. It just happened. It became a big camp, which reached 90,000 people. The situation was critical. People were suffering, women were delivering their babies in the road. It was a danger for the mother’s life and the child’s…
“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…