Born: February 4, 1952, Gore, New Zealand Shipley is a New Zealand politician who was New Zealand’s first female prime minister (1997-99).After graduating from Christchurch Teachers’ College in 1972, Jennifer married Burton Shipley, a farmer, and began teaching at a primary school. Active in the community, she joined the National Party (NP) in 1975. Shipley […]

Flourished 10th century BCQueen Sheba of, biblical character also figures in Islamic tradition-where she is named Bilqis-and in Ethiopian legend, where, as Makeda, wife of King Solomon, she is credited with founding the first royal line of the Kingdom of Sheba in southwest Arabia.In the biblical Book of Kings, the Queen of Sheba (or Saba’,

Born: October 11, 1884, New York, U.S.Died: November 7, 1962, New York City Eleanor Roosevelt was a social activist, author, lecturer, and United States representative to the United Nations. She was the wife of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, to Elliott Roosevelt and

Born: May 21, 1944, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician, president of Ireland (1990-1997). The first woman to serve as Irish president, Robinson worked to transform the largely ceremonial office into a platform from which to campaign for peace, social reforms, and environmental causes.She was born Mary Bourke in

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