24 indexed achievements across recorded history.
Massachusetts legislature incorporated Bradford Academy in Bradford, MA, as the state's first coeducational academy, admitting both male and female students.
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Louise du Pierry died on February 27, 1807, in Luzarches, France.
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe, into a family of reformers and writers.
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Alice Hamilton was born in Manhattan, New York City, into a prominent family that would later relocate to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Anne Jemima Clough died on 27 February 1892 in Cambridge, England, having led Newnham College for over two decades.
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Ethelda Bleibtrey was born on February 27, 1902, in Waterford, New York.
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Daily Capital Journal proclaims “Oregon Has Today a Woman Governor,” hailing Carolyn B. Shelton as the first woman to govern any U.S. state.
View detailsAssumes office as acting governor of Oregon, becoming the first woman acting governor of a U.S. state and widely hailed as the nation’s first female governor.
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Birth of Patria Mercedes Mirabal Reyes in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.
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Temple presented an Oscar at the 7th Academy Awards.
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Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel for "Gone With the Wind," cementing her literary legacy.
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Nadezhda Krupskaya died on February 27, 1939, in Moscow, Russia.
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Bolton began her U.S. House service representing Ohio's 22nd district, becoming the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio.
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She becomes the first woman to check out in the P‑51 Mustang, the Army Air Forces’ fastest pursuit aircraft.
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Receives Esquire Magazine Gold Award for Best Female Vocalist.
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She filed a patent relating to memory architecture in electronic calculators.
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Cooper died at age 105 in Washington, D.C., having lived from slavery through the early Civil Rights era.
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The last episode of "Joyce Chen Cooks" aired on WGBH.
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At the 22nd Grammy Awards, Warwick won Best Pop and Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female, the first woman ever to win in both fields in one night.
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Won Olympic bronze in women’s figure skating at Calgary, one of the defining results of her career.
View detailsWon Olympic bronze in Calgary, becoming the first African American athlete to medal at the Winter Olympics.
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Jeanne L. Crews and Burton G. Cour-Palais were granted U.S. Patent 4,903,900 for a flexible multi-layer hypervelocity impact shield to protect spacecraft from orbital debris.
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The Hall of Fame's special Committee on African American Baseball elected Effa Manley, making her the first woman ever elected.
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Frederick filed a proposed class action alleging the USOC and USA Gymnastics failed to report her coach's sexual abuse under the Safe Sport Act.
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