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Receives her M.D. degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y., becoming the first woman in the U.S. with a medical degree.
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Becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College.
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Becomes the first woman presidential candidate in the United States when she is nominated by the National Radical Reformers.
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First woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earns her B.S. degree. She becomes the first female professional chemist in the U.S.
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Becomes the first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town, in Argonia, Kansas.
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First American woman to swim across the English Channel.
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Becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.
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First woman elected to the U.S. Senate. (Arkansas)
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First American woman to serve as a director of a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Company.
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First African-American tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon.
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First African-American woman in Congress. (New York) Her motto is, "Unbought and unbossed." She served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 14 years.
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Appointed by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, making her its first woman justice.
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First American woman to be sent into space.
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Sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first black woman to serve as mayor of a major city.
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First black female astronaut.
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First African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first First Lady ever elected to national office.
