30 indexed achievements across recorded history.
Katherine, Lady Berkeley obtained a royal licence and formally endowed a chantry school at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire — one of the oldest surviving schools in England.
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Succeeded as the first female ruler of the Habsburg dominions on October 20, 1740.
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Death of Highland Mary, the young Scottish woman remembered in Robert Burns’s poetry and later literary memorialization.
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First public performance by nine-year-old Clara Wieck at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, launching her career as a child pianist.
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Child published 'An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans' on October 20, 1833.
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Grace Darling died on October 20, 1842, from tuberculosis in Bamburgh, England.
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Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized further activism at the New York State Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse.
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Nellie Letitia Mooney was born on a farm near Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada.
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Lydia Maria Child died on October 20, 1880, in Wayland, Massachusetts, leaving behind a towering legacy in literature and activism.
View detailsLydia Maria Child passed away on October 20, 1880, in Wayland, Massachusetts.
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Margaret Dumont was born on October 20, 1882, in Brooklyn, New York.
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Luxemburg became the first Polish woman to earn a doctorate in political economy on October 20, 1898.
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Enolia P. McMillan was born in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania on October 20, 1904.
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Sophie Taeuber married the artist Jean (Hans) Arp on October 20, 1922, beginning a lifelong artistic partnership.
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Anne Sullivan Macy died in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
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Savage won a Rosenwald visual-arts fellowship tied to *Gamin*, a first for a Black sculptor.
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Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard was born in Magdeburg, Germany, on 20 October 1942.
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Elfriede Jelinek was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria, to a Czech Jewish father and a Catholic mother.
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Mary Kenner received a patent for a sanitary belt with a moisture-resistant pocket.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Hodgkin as sole winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, United States.
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Makes a keynote appearance at DePauw University’s Old Gold celebration, reflecting her ongoing influence.
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Thomas files for U.S. patent for Illusion Transmitter on October 20, 1978.
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Benoit won the Chicago Marathon in 2:21:21, a U.S. women's marathon best that stood for 21 years.
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Sheila Scott passed away on October 20, 1988, leaving a legacy as a pioneering figure in aviation.
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A minor planet was named after Sau Lan Wu, honoring her contributions to science.
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Eva Ibbotson passed away on October 20, 2010, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Junko Tabei died of peritoneal cancer on October 20, 2016, at age 77.
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