Ladies' Firsts
- Annie Taylor (1901)—1st US woman over Niagara Falls in a barrel
- Alice Wells (1910)—1st US policewoman
- Harriet Quimby (1911)—1st US woman pilot
- Jeannette Rankin (1916)—1st US Congresswoman
- Gertrude Ederle (1926)—1st US woman to swim the English Channel (she beat the existing men's record!)
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