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Dale Evans Rogers (born Frances Octavia Smith; October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001) was an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the second wife of singing cowboy film star Roy Rogers .
Marina Știrbei (1912–2001), Romanian aviator who founded the women's White Squadron in World War II; Antonie Strassmann (1901–1952), German an aerobatic aviator (emigrated to the US in 1932), who flew a Zeppelin from Germany to Pernambuco, Brazil in 1932. She performed aerobatic flights, including at the 1930 National Air Races in Chicago ...
1912 Harriet Quimby: First woman to fly across the English Channel. [12] 1912 Rayna Kasabova: First woman to participate in a military flight during the Siege of Odrin. 1914 Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya: First woman commissioned as a military pilot; she flew reconnaissance missions for the Czar in 1914. [13] [14] 1915 Marie Marvingt
Harriet Quimby (May 11, 1875 – July 1, 1912) was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1912 the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
She then co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus, was the first Black woman to serve on the House Rules Committee, and spent her life championing equality, pacifism, and ending poverty ...
Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee was the first Chinese American woman to register to vote in the United States; she registered to vote on November 8, 1911, in California following the passage of 1911 California Proposition 4, nine years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1912
Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poet and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her Collected Poems ( Carcanet Press ) were published in 1994.
Hugh Hefner, the man who created a magazine empire, died Wednesday at the age of 91. His legacy includes some of the most famous Playboy playmates ever to grace the cover and go one to become ...