Before she became Princess of Wales in 1981 she was a kindergarten teacher

As head of Harpo Entertainment she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios

She answered an ad in her college paper looking for astronauts & in 1983 became the first American woman in space

A street in Montgomery Alabama is named for this woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus

In 1978 Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to achieve the men's int'l grandmaster title in this

In 1997 this actress turned politician was appointed a minister in the U.K. Transport Department

Astronomer Margaret Burbidge was appointed the first woman director of this institution in England in 1972

In 1999 a high court in Lahore found her guilty of accepting bribes in exchange for a contract

Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral represented this country as a Life Consul

She was named for her birthplace: Winona Minnesota

These ever-popular singing sisters perform at the Lawrence Welk Champagne Theatre in Branson Missouri

Kay Waldo Barnes this former CBS anchorman's cousin became the first female mayor of Kansas City MO. in 1999

Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in 1948 the same year as her short story The Lottery

(Hi I'm Ekaterina Gordeeva) I won my first Olympic gold medal in 1988 the same year this skater won her second gold medal

She was born in 1946 the year her mother Judy Garland starred in The Harvey Girls

The Duchess of Bedford introduced the beloved British custom of afternoon tea in this century

She's written some of her romance novels under her married name Barbara McCorquodale

Goalkeeper Gwen Cheeseman was part of the bronze medal-winning U.S. team in this sport at the 1984 Olympics

The Dying Swan was a cygneture solo for this ballerina for whom it was created in 1905

She's the woman in power seen here(Clinton's attorney general)

After she was married this Indian princess was known as Rebecca Rolfe

Russia fought 2 wars with Turkey & annexed the Crimea during her reign as Russia's empress

Her 1951 book La Razon de mi Vida (The Purpose of my Life) was once mandatory reading in Argentine schools

In her 1903 autobiography she wrote Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence

Margrethe II studied archaeology at this British university before she became queen of Denmark