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Marie Curie
Marie was born on November 7, 1867 and died on July 4, 1934. She was named the first woman to recieve a Nobel Prize. The first time she won one was in 1903 for Physics with her husband for research on radioactivity discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896. Her second Nobel Prize was awarded for Chemistry in 1911 for more work on radioactivity.Basically, she was a very important figure in the world of science for women everywhere. -
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel was born on August 19, 1883 and soon after was put into an orphanage. She had a brief career as a singer before opening her first clothes shop in Paris’s Rue Cambon in 1910. She began with black dresses and trademark suits. By the early 1920s, Coco launched her first perfume. -
Helen Keller
Keller was an American author, politcal activist, and lecturer. At 19 months, an illness left her both deaf and blind. Despite these hindering disablities, she was very successful in life. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. -
Alva Belmont
Alva was born on January 17, 1853 and died on January 26, 1933. Her greatest achievement would be promoting the women suffrage movement throughout her life. She was a major figure for it and was even president of the National Women's Party (WNP). She fought hard and long and was able to finally see women suffrage happen in 1920 -
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882 and died on March 28, 1941. Virginia was a woman in literature. She wrote books such as Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). She became a model figure for women journalists/authors all around the world. -
Amelia Earheart
Amelia Earheart was a known aviation pioneer. She was the first woman to receive teh U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, which was awarded to her for becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She had a very successful life, but disaster struck in 1937. During an attempt to make a circumnaigational flight around the globe, Earheart disappeared around the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. -
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born on August 10, 1910. Teresa became a nun on May 24, 1931. In India, she saw others suffering and in poverty, so she opened an open-air school for slum children with no financial help. On October 7, 1950, Teresa started "The Missionaries of Charity" which took care of less fortunate people. It boomed over the years and mad Mother Teresa was recognised for it. She won several awards including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), the Nehru Prize, and the Balzan Prize (1979) -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Known as the most involved First Lady. She was nicknamed "Roosevelt's Legs" because of the fact that her husband was wheelchair bound; she was the voice for her husbandand spoke out on social matters. She followed her own political agenda and was very involved in activites most often left to the President. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 and died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005. She is best known for her stand for the modern civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa refused to give her bus seat to a white passanger just because of his skin color. She was fined and arrested, but her stand helped others all over America fight for their rights. Rosa even recieved several awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and a Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. -
Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayeva Tereshkova
Valentina was the first woman to travel in space inside the Vostok 6. She was born in Russia on March 6, 1937. She trained as an airline pilot before, but she wanted to try out flying in space. Valentina was the first ever space traveler who hadn't been a test pilot. Her Vostok 6 mission orbited the earth from June 16 through June 19, 1963.
