“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…
488: Mary Whiton Calkins The First Woman Elected President of the American Psychological Association & the American Philosophical Association Born: 30 March 1863, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America Died: 26 February 1930, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America Mary earned her degree from Harvard but even now they refuse to grant her the degree…
476: Col. Lorllys Ramos Acevedo Former and Last Head of Venezuelan Aviation Accident Unit (aka the JIAAC—Junta Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviacion Civil) Birth Date Unknown The JIAAC was shut down and replaced with a new organization. Lorllys was featured on an episode of Air Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel. Her LinkedIn profile lists her…
“I had no real feeling about being a pioneering woman on a serious Alaskan expedition. I only knew that as the only woman, I had to measure up.” 421: Barbara Washburn Mountaineer Born: 10 November 1914, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 25 September 2014, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America Barbara was the first…