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The first women competed in ski jumping at the Olympics, including three American women - Lindsey Van, Jessica Jerome and Sarah Hendrickson. [289] Lauryn Williams was the first American woman to win a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. [290] [291]
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)
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.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century American men
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.
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford History of the United States. ISBN 9780199726578. Weyler, Karen A. (2012). "Chapter 11: John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women's Rights". In Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J. (eds.). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. pp. 227–246.
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [159] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
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