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Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [ 52 ] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston).
July 2 – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (born 1792) August 6 – David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (born 1796) August 9 – James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (born 1748 or 1760) September 24 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
Nancy Morgan Hart (c. 1735–1830) was a rebel heroine of the American Revolutionary War, noted for her exploits against Loyalists in the northeast Georgia backcountry.She is characterized as a tough, strong and resourceful frontier woman who repeatedly outsmarted Tory soldiers, and killed some outright.
1960: Wilma Rudolph, track and field champion, became the first American woman to win three gold medals in the Rome Olympics. [106] She elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.
18th-century American women writers (1 C, 59 P) Pages in category "18th-century American women" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total.
Corazon Aquino. Corazon Aquino was President of the Philippines from 1986-1992 under some extraordinary circumstances.She was a Senator's wife and became a political leader in the People Power ...
January 8, 1835 – The United States public debt contracts to $0 for the only time in history. [21] 1835 – Edward Strutt Abdy publishes his Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October 1834. May 10, 1837 – The Panic of 1837 begins in New York City.
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...