Further Exploration of the Factorium

Monday, March 15, 2010

A Fact A Day # 15

We are going to build up on more firsts today. Here are the 5 firsts for the day that have been created by women:

1. First woman to set foot on the North Pole: Ann Bancroft of USA who achieved this feat in 1986.

2. First woman space tourist: Anousheh Ansari in 2006.

3. First woman to walk in space: Svetlana Savitskaya while aboard the Salyut-7 in 1984.

4. First Indian commercial woman pilot and the First woman Airbus pilot in the world: Durba Banerjee of Indian Airlines and the Airbus A300.

5. First woman Chess grandmaster of India: S.Vijalayalakshmi in 2000.

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