22 indexed achievements across recorded history.
The 4 January 1739 issue of the South Carolina Gazette was the first published under Elizabeth Timothy's direction, publicly announcing her role as editor.
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Frances Miriam Whitcher died of tuberculosis in Whitesboro, New York, at age 40, ending her career as a pioneering American humorist.
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U.S. Patent No. 172,933 was granted to Helen Blanchard for a 'button-hole sewing-machine,' extending her buttonhole-stitch innovations.
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Johanna Westerdijk was born on January 4, 1883, in Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands.
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Minnie Davenport was born near Rockford, Iowa; she later became a pioneering legislator as Minnie D. Craig.
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Mary Macarthur's cremation took place on January 4, 1921, at Golders Green Crematorium.
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Eliza Ann Gardner passed away on January 4, 1922, leaving a legacy of activism.
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Nellie Cashman died of pneumonia in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 4, 1925.
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Mahony died on January 4, 1926, marking the end of a groundbreaking career.
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Lillian Ann Baumbach was born in Arlington, Virginia, into a family deeply rooted in the plumbing trade.
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Birth of May-Britt Moser in Fosnavåg, Norway, who would become a Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist studying the brain’s spatial navigation system.
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Marcia Frederick was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, later becoming a pioneering American artistic gymnast.
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Mink was sworn in as the first woman of color in U.S. Congress.
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Rose Heilbron became the first woman judge to sit at London’s Old Bailey.
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On January 4, 1990, Charles Stuart died by suicide, jumping from the Tobin Bridge the day after being implicated in Carol's murder.
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Feinstein became the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee in 2007.
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Pelosi formally receives the Speaker’s gavel, becoming the first woman to preside as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
View detailsFeinstein chaired the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
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Sharan Rani Backliwal, pioneering sarod virtuoso and India's first prominent female sarod player, died in New Delhi on 4 January 2008.
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Betty Freeman died on January 4, 2009, in Beverly Hills, California.
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