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》》 》             The first woman in space was a Soviet cosmonaut, Velentina Tereshkova lauched with the vostok s6 Mission June 16, 1963. The second woman overall to go into space was also a cosmonaut: Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982 on the Soyuz T-7 mission.



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》》 》 Vigdis Finnbogadottir served as the fourth president of Iceland from 1 August, 1980 to 1 August 1996. She was the world's first democratically directly elected female President.



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》》 》 Elizabeth Rebecca "betty" wilson was considered one of the greatest woman cricket player of all time. She represents Australia in women's test cricket between 1947-48 and 1957-58. Wilson batted right handed, and was good off-spin bowler and superb fielder.



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》》 》 Ada Lovelace wrote the world's first computer program. Today, I found out that Ada Lovelace was the world's first computer programmer all the way back in the mid 1800s, writing the first computer program in 1842.



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》》 》 Amelia Mary Earhart was an American Aviation Pioneer and Author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.



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》》 》 The first women  to be appointed a police officer with full powers of arrest was Edith Smith, who was sworn into Grantham Borough police in 1915.



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》》 》 Sabiha Gokcen was a Turkish Aviator. She was the world's first female fighter pilot, aged 23.



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》》 》 Bertha Ringer, better known today as Bertha, Benz, was the first woman in a history to drive an automobile over a long distance. Bertha's husband Karl Benz, is the maker of the first car which run on fuel burning engine and founder of Mercedes-Benz along with Germany engineer Gottlieb Daimler. 



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》》 》 A physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactive decay, was the first woman to receive a nobel prize in physics and became the first person to receive a second nobel prize in chemistry.



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》》 》 Elizabeth Blackwell was British Physician, notable as first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. and the first woman on the medical register of the general medical council.