13 Women From the Past Who've Made a Huge Impact on the Present
by N/A, 9 years ago |
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To celebrate Women's Equality Day this week, here are 13 amazing women who made major strides for the women's rights movement.Â
1. Valentina Tereshkova
This Russian-born astronaut was the first woman in space.
2. A Woman hits a neo-nazi with her purse in Växjö, Sweden in 1985
3. Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks, Civil Rights Activist
4. 106-Year-Old woman protects her home in Armenia with a rifle.
5. Komako Kimura, Japanese Suffragist
6. Kathrine Switzer, first woman to run the Boston Marathon with a registered number.
She finished in 4 hours and 20 minutes.
7. Anne Frank
Frank, a Jewish diarist and writer, was killed by Nazis during the Holocaust.
8. Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor
9. Amelia Earhart
Earhart was the first female solo pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
10. Margaret Heafield
Heafield direction the software engineering For Nasa's Apollo Space Program in the 60s.
11. Malala Yousafzai
Yousafzai is a Pakistani advocate for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize Laureate. She was shot by the Taliban when she was only 14, but survived and went on to accomplish amazing things.
12. Female Samurai Warrior, 1800s
13. Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a physicist known for her work studying with radioactivity.
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