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<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation' target="_blank">Famous bar room smasher.</a> She was anti-alcohol and believed drink destroyed families.
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<a href='http://www.nflibrary.ca/ForAdults/LocalHistoryMaterials/StuntersDaredevils/tabid/135/Default.aspx' target="_blank">First person to go over Niagara Falls</a> in a barrel and live to tell the tale.
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The first woman to be <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington#U.S._Postage_Stamp' target="_blank">commemorated on a US stamp. </a>The stamp cost 8cents.
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The first <a href='http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/about-mothersday/history/' target="_blank">Mother's Day.</a>
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America's first <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Stebbins_Wells' target="_blank">woman police officer </a>joins the Los Angeles Police Department.
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First <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie' target="_blank">woman to win a Nobel Prize.</a>
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First woman to be a <a href='http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html' target="_blank">licensed pilot </a>and then fly across the English Channel.
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First woman elected to Congress. She was referred to as the <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin'target="_blank" >Lady of the House</a>.
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<a href='http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sangermargaret/p/margaret_sanger.htm'target="_blank">Opened the first birth control clinic.</a>
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At 17 she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the same game. <a href='http://www.jeanpatrick.com/jackiemitchell.htm' target="_blank">First woman to play</a> on a professional baseball team.
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<a href='http://www.ameliaearhart.com/' target="_blank" >First woman to fly solo</a> across the Atlantic Ocean.
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First woman to receive the <a href='http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/military/firsts.html' target="_blank">Purple Heart.</a>
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The first black woman to be<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_S._Sampson' target="_blank"> elected as a judge</a> in the United States.
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The <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Franks' target="_blank">first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize</a>, for her reporting on a member of The Weathermen, an anti-Vietnam war group.
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She was the <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shane' target="_blank" >first female broadcaster </a>in major league baseball history.
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First female Supreme Court Justice.
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<a href='http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html' target="_blank">First American woman</a> in space.
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First female artist in the <a href='http://www.aretha-franklin.com/' target="_blank">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.</a>
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Won the <a href='http://www.heatherwhitestone.com/site/content/bio.shtml' target="_blank">Miss America contest</a>. She is the first woman with a disability, she is deaf, to win.
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<a href='http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html' target="_blank">First female Secretary of State.</a>