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Sarah Rapalje was the first white female child born in New Netherland. She was born in Albany on July 9, 1625, and died in New Amsterdam, then New York, in 1685. During her life time, she had two husbands and bore 15 children.
New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893. However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully); see 1919 in New Zealand .
1996: Chava Koster, born in the Netherlands and ordained in the United States, became the first female rabbi from the Netherlands. 1998: On July 28, 1998, Ava Muhammad became the first female minister in the Nation of Islam, heading Muhammad's Mosque 15 in Atlanta, Ga., one of the largest mosques in the country.
1997: Chava Koster, born in the Netherlands and ordained in the United States, became the first female rabbi from the Netherlands. 1998: The General Assembly of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Anglican Church in Japan) started to ordain women. The Guatemalan Presbyterian Synod started to ordain women.
Jun 4, 2019 · Celebrate the history-makers who blazed the trail toward equality, from the first female pharaoh to the first woman to go to space.
- Elizabeth Yuko
Mar 8, 2017 · FIRST MILLIONAIRE: Sarah Breedlove was celebrated as the country’s first female self-made millionaire, according to her New York Times obituary. The orphan was born to freed slaves; she later...
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Amelia Earhart. Credit: NASA. 1960. First female PM. After Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s party wins the general election in Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), she becomes the world’s first woman prime minister.
