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The first person to greet her was a British immigration officer who requested a passport from "the bleary-eyed, waterlogged teenager". [13] Her record stood until Florence Chadwick swam the Channel in 1950 in 13 hours and 23 minutes.
Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
1997: Chris Tashima becomes the first Asian-American to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, for Visas and Virtue. 2019: Kazu Hiro becomes the first Asian-American to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for Bombshell. This was his first win following his naturalization.
Grace Hudowalski was the ninth person and first woman to climb all 46 of the Adirondack High Peaks. [96] [97] [98] 1938 Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. [99] 1939 Molly Kool was North America's first registered female sea captain or ship master. [100]
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who stepped down in 2021 after 16 years in office, was named Time’s Person of the Year in 2015.. The magazine cited Merkel’s economic leadership as well ...
Leonard thompson was born on Pickering Street near the beaches of Toronto on the 17 of July 1908, to parents Harold and Florence Thompson. Thompson was first treated at the Hospital for Sick Children before being transferred to the care of physicians Andrew Almon Fletcher, Duncan Archibald Graham, and Walter Ruggles Campbell. [1]
Since 1927, Time has selected the person, group or concept to make the biggest impact — whether positive or negative — over the past 12 months. Despite last year’s winner Taylor Swift enjoying a