Born: November 14, 1954, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.Condoleezza Rice was a national security adviser (2001) under President George W. Bush. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved to Denver, Colorado, with her family when she was a teenager. She began attending the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating with a bachelor’s degree […]
Born: July 21, 1938, Miami, Florida, U.S. Janet Reno was the United States attorney general (1993-2001), the first woman to hold the position. She was born in Miami, Florida, and educated at Cornell University and Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard in 1963, she practised law in Miami with several firms. She became staff
Born: June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana, U.S.Died: May 18, 1973, Carmel, California Jeannette Rankin was an American legislator, born near Missoula, Montana, and educated at the University of Montana and at the School of Philanthropy, New York City. She attained prominence as a leader of the woman suffrage movement in Washington and Montana and
Died: Aug 13, 587, Poitiers [now in France];feast day August 13 Radegunda was the queen of the Merovingian king Chlotar I, who left her husband to become a nun and later founded a monastery at Poitiers. She was one of the first of the Merovingian saints.A Thuringian princess, Radegunda was captured about 531 by Chlotar
Born: c. 1596, near present-day Jamestown, Virginia, U.S.Died: March 1617, Gravesend, Kent, EnglandPocahontas was the daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan. She was born in Virginia. Her real name was Matoaka; the name Pocahontas means “playful one”. According to a legend, in 1608 Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith by holding his
Born: May 7, 1919, Los Toldos, ArgentinaDied: July 26, 1952, Buenos Aires Eva Perón, née María Eva Duarte (1919-1952), was is Argentina political figure and second wife of Juan Domingo Perón. Born in Los Toldos, she began an acting career at the age of 15. She met Perón in 1944, when she was a successful
Born: April 10, 1882, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.Died: May 14, 1965, New York Frances Perkins was an American social reformer, who became the first female member of the Cabinet when United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt named her secretary of labour in 1933.Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Mount Holyoke College, the University
Born: Aug. 18, 1900, Allahabad, IndiaDied: Dec. 1, 1990, DehradunVijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian diplomat, who was active in the Indian struggle for independence. She was born in Allahabad, the sister of the statesman Jawaharlal Nehru, and educated at the University of Allahabad. In 1921, she married the Indian lawyer and nationalist leader Ranjit
Born: July 28, 1929, Southampton, New York, U.S.Died: May 19, 1994, New York, New YorkJacqueline was an merican first lady (1961-63), the wife of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States, who was noted for her style and elegance. Her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, was one of the wealthiest men in the world.Jacqueline
Born: March 26, 1930, El Paso, Texas, U.S. Sandra Day O’Connor is an American jurist, the first woman associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Born in El Paso, Texas, on March 26, 1930, and educated at Stanford University, O’Connor first entered public office as an assistant attorney general in Arizona (1965-69); she later
Born: 1330—Died: 1370, Nefertiti was an ancient Egyptian queen who was the chief wife of Akhenaton, the pharaoh of Egypt, with whom she initiated many religious, artistic, and cultural changes. Nefertiti may have exercised the priestly office, a position normally reserved for kings.Akhenaton, who reigned from about 1353 to 1335 BC, was the first pharaoh
Born: January 9, 1959, Guatemala Rigoberta Menchú Túm is a Guatemalan activist for human rights and for the rights of indigenous peoples. Born in northwestern Guatemala, Menchú grew up in a poor, traditional Quiché farming community in the highlands, the daughter of respected village elders. Extreme poverty and unsafe labour conditions led to the death
Born: May 3, 1898, KievDied: Dec 8, 1978, JerusalemGolda Meir was an Israeli premier (1969-74), a founder of the state of Israel. Meir was born on May 3, 1898, in Kyiv, Russia (now Ukraine), and originally named Goldie Mabovitz or Mabovich. Her father immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1905, and was joined by his family
Born: 1046, Lucca, TuscanyDied: July 24, 1115, Bondeno, Romagna Matilda was the countess of Tuscany remembered for her role in the conflict between the papacy and the Holy Roman emperor. The climax of this struggle, the confrontation of the emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII, took place at Matilda’s castle of Canossa.The assassination in
Born: December 8, 1542, Linlithgow Palace,West Lothian, ScotlandDied: February 8, 1587, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, EnglandMary was the queen of Scots, also Mary Stuart daughter of James V, king of Scotland, by his second wife, Mary of Guise. Born in Linlithgow in December 1542, Mary became queen before she was a week-old baby. Raised in France,