Not only was she the first woman to swim across the English Channel, she did it in record breaking time--beating the fastest man's record by 1 hour and 49 minutes. She is:
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Rosemary Casals
Gertrude Ederle
Lucy Walker, an English mountaineer, was the first woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland in the year:
1871
1875
1921
This cosmonaut was the first woman in space, orbiting the earth 48 times in the Vostok VI in 1963:
Carley Fiorina
Urvashi Vaid
Valentina Tereshkova
Frances Perkins became Secretary of Labor, the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history in what year:
1893
1913
1933
In 797 she was crowned sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire and became the first woman ever to hold the throne of the old Roman Empire.
Irene of Athens
Empress Theodora
Anna Comnena
