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After a lengthy court battle, the marriage was dissolved by an order from Queen Victoria and the publicity helped influence the passage of the Age of Consent Act, 1891, which increased age of consent for girls in India, married or unmarried, from 10 to 12. [2] Mrinalini Devi (aged between 9 and 11) was married to Rabindranath Tagore (aged 22 ...
Girl Guides of America (now Girl Scouts of the USA) was established as the first voluntary organization for girls. [1] 1914 Caresse Crosby was the first woman to patent a brassiere. [63] [self-published source] 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. [64] [65]
Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline ...
The girls began acting strangely, leading the Puritan community to suspect that the girls were victims of witchcraft. The girls named three townswomen as witches – Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osbourne; Tituba confessed to having seen the devil and also stated that there was a coven of witches in the Salem Village area. The other two women ...
Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries; Elisabeth van Houts (born 1952) – medieval European history; Aira Kemiläinen (1919–2006) – European history of ideas; Laura Kolbe (born in 1957) Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold War; Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
Estefan is one of the most beloved performers in Latin music history (and in music history in general). During her legendary career, Estefan sold over 100 million records, landed 38 #1 hit on the ...
AP . Under this fallen tree the decomposed body of a young girl was found, near Woodbine, Ill., April 26, 1958. The body is thought to be that of Maria Ridulph, 7, who disappeared Dec. 3, 1957 ...
Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, an institution that assists trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, giving education and employment: 1940–1999: Julia Kristeva: France, Bulgaria: 1941 – [35] 1940–1999: Winona LaDuke: United States: 1959 – Ecofeminist [17] 1940–1999 ...