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Ellen Church was the first female flight attendant in America; she suggested the idea of female nurses on board to Boeing Air Transport, claiming that if people felt safer they would fly more. [86] 1931 Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the prize with Nicholas Murray Butler. [87] [88] 1932
Top 100 historical figures may refer to: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a 1978 book; 100 Greatest Britons, a BBC series about historical figures from the United Kingdom; Great South Africans, a South African TV series to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most ...
social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people. Walter Francis White: 1895 1955 United States: NAACP executive secretary Maria L. de Hernández: 1896 1986 United States
The first English people to arrive in America were the members of the Roanoke Colony who came to North Carolina in July 1587, with 17 women, 91 men, and 9 boys as the founding colonists. On August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare was born in the colony; she was the first English child born in the territory of the United States.
1940s: Lois Fegan Farrell became the first female reporter to cover a professional hockey team in America. [100] 1960: Mary McGee becomes the first official female motorcycle racer in the United States by earning a license from the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme. She is also the first woman to compete in the Baja 500 off-road race.
1855: New York Women's Hospital opened in 1855 as the first hospital solely devoted to ailments affiliated with women. [8] 1869: Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote. [9] 1870: Louisa Ann Swain is the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie ...
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2] Mexicans were counted as White from 1790 to 1930, unless of apparent non-European extraction. [13]