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In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation, on Blackmore's First Lady. [ 1 ] The first woman to sail around the world was Jeanne Baret , a French woman who, disguised as a man, sailed on the Etoile, one of the two ships on the French expedition led by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.
The first person to survive rabies without being vaccinated is now a newlywed! Jeanna Giese got married on Saturday, September 20th. She was bitten by a bat nearly 10 years ago in Fond du Lac.
Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927).
(Alphabetical, by first author's surname) In K. A. Applegate and ghostwriter Emily Costello's novel The Journey (2000), book 42 of the Animorphs children's book series, one of the main characters, Marco, is bitten by a rabid dog while attempting to retrieve a camera from an apartment. Marco begins to experience early symptoms of the virus, but ...
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 ...
In 1970 she published the story of her round-the-world flight in the book Three-Eight Charlie. [8] While that book is now out of print, a 50th anniversary edition was later published including maps, weather charts and photos. [8] Three-Eight Charlie is a reference to the call sign, N1538C, of the Cessna 180 Skywagon Mock used to fly around the ...
First woman to successfully climb K2 Wanda Rutkiewicz ( Polish pronunciation: [/ˈvanda rutˈkʲevitʂ/] 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. [ 1 ] She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest .
Joseph Meister in 1885. Joseph Meister (21 February 1876 – 24 June 1940) was the first person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and likely the first person to be successfully treated for the infection, which has a >99% fatality rate once symptoms set in.