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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 ...
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.
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
Peggy Cartwright was a child actress born on November 14, 1912, in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] She appeared in several of the early Our Gang short films from the silent film era; [2] although her appearances would solely be those released in 1922.
Fanny Durack, Stockholm Olympics, 1912 [3] Durack learned to swim in Sydney's Coogee Baths [2] in the South-Eastern Suburbs using breaststroke, the only style for which there was a championship for women at that time. In 1906 she won her first title, and over the next few years, dominated the Australian swimming scene.
Monica Reyes is an FBI agent played by Annabeth Gish on the Fox series The X-Files, 2001–2002. Ali Reynolds goes home to Arizona after her job and husband are taken by younger women, and finds trouble in a book series by J. A. Jance begun 2006. Louise Rick is Detective Inspector in Copenhagen in a series by Sara Blædel begun 2005.
Becky Hammon became the first full-time female coach in the NBA - and the first full-time female coach in any of the four major professional sports in America - as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs. [301] Anne B. France won the inaugural Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR. [302]