24 indexed achievements across recorded history.
Ching Shih negotiated a formal surrender to the Qing dynasty, securing amnesty for the vast majority of her pirate fleet in one of history's most successful pirate retirements.
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Catherine married Johannes Zimmermann on April 20, 1847, a critical union for her mission work.
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Birth of Mary Agnes Meara (Mary Agnes Chase) in Iroquois County, Illinois, into a working-class family that shaped her self-taught path in botany.
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Birth of plant pathologist Margaret Brown Newton in Montreal, Quebec, later a world authority on wheat stem rust.
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Mary Phelps Jacob, later known as Caresse Crosby, was born in New Rochelle, New York.
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Grace Cossington Smith was born in Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Death of abolitionist, educator, and reformer Laura Smith Haviland in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Mary Pickford performs in her first motion picture role with Biograph.
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Irene Lieblich was born in Tarnopol, Poland on April 20, 1923.
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Rose Scott died on 20 April 1925 in Edgecliff, Sydney, aged 77, after decades of activism for women's rights and social reform.
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Nightclub debut of "Strange Fruit" at Café Society, introducing a stark anti‑lynching song to popular audiences.
View detailsHer performance of "Strange Fruit" becomes the earliest prominent anti‑lynching protest song in U.S. popular music.
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First woman on American Mathematical Society Board of Trustees.
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Benoit ran 2:30:17 at the Boston Marathon, continuing her ascent among elite female marathoners.
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Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 'The Color Purple,' becoming the first Black woman to receive this honor.
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NAACP gains control over Parker’s literary estate on April 20, 1988.
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Received Pulitzer Prize for "Personal History."
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Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli died of cancer in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, at age 85, closing the life of a pioneering ENIAC programmer.
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Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman ever to win an IndyCar Series race.
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Dorothy Height died on April 20, 2010, in Washington, D.C.
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Presented with the Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting the Gualcarque River.
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On April 20, 2016, the U.S. Treasury announced plans to feature Harriet Tubman's portrait on the redesigned $20 bill.
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AIGA announced Susan Kare would receive its highest honor, the AIGA Medal for 2018.
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