March 8 is International Women’s Day (US has its equivalent on the 26th of August) which celebrates the struggle for women’s rights. Throughout history, many strong women had to rise against the odds and fight for their dreams and passions, equality and solidarity among men. Their bravery contributed to shaping today’s world, and has to be remembered.
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#1 Irena Sendlerowa – Woman Who Smuggled Approximately 2,500 Jewish Children Out Of The Warsaw Ghett
#2 Malala Yousafzai, 19, Pakistani Activist For Female Education Who Survived Being Shot In The Head By The Taliban, The Youngest Ever Nobel Prize Laureate
#3 Marie Curie Was A Polish Scientist Famous For Her Work On Radioactivity, The First Woman To Win A Nobel Prize And The Only Woman To Win Twice
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#4 Nujood Ali, Given To Abusive Husband At Age 10, Divorced Him And Broke Tribal Tradition
#5 These Women Were Firefighters At Pearl Harbor (1941)
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#6 Muslim Woman Covers The Yellow Star Of Her Jewish Neighbor With Her Veil (1941)
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#7 Voting Activist Annie Lumpkins At The Little Rock City Jail (10 July, 1961)
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#8 One Of The Onna-Bugeisha, Female Samurai Warrior Of The Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class In Feudal Japan (Late 1800’s)
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#9 Jane Goodall, Leading Primatologist And Conservationalist
#10 Maud Stevens Wagner Was The First Known Female Tattoo Artist In The United States (1907)
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#11 Anne Frank Was A Jewish Diarist And Writer
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#12 Amelia Earhart Was The First Female Aviator To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (1928)
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#13 Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks – Civil Rights Activist
#14 Russia-Born Valentina Tereshkova Became The First Woman In Space Aboard The Vostok 6 (1963)
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#15 Mary Winsor Holding Suffrage Prisoners Banner In Washington D.C. (1917)
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#16 Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, The First Woman Engineer In The World
#17 Annette Kellerman Promoted Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing Suit (1907). She Was Arrested For Indecency
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#18 Florence Nightingale – 1st Nurse To Teach Basic Sanitation Between Patients
#19 Ftima El Fihria The Founder Of The First University In The World – Fes, Morocco
#20 Women Of The 1975 Icelandic Women’s Strike, Kvennafrídagurinn, When 90% Of The Female Population Of Iceland Went On Strike To “demonstrate The Indispensable Work Of Women For Iceland’s Economy And Society”
#21 Komako Kimura, A Prominent Japanese Suffragist Marched On Fifth Avenue In New York City Demanding The Right To Vote (27 October, 1917)
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#22 Harriet Tubman, Who Helped Slaves Escape Via The Underground Railroad.
#23 Yusra Mardini Syrian Teenage Refugee Who Swam For Hours In The Sea Pushing A Sinking Boat With Other Refugees To Safety
#24 Ana Aslan (Romania) – She Is Considered To Be A Pioneer Of Gerontology And Geriatrics
#25 Taramon Bibi Is One Of The Two Female Freedom Fighters In Bangladesh
#26 Mileva Maric, Serbian Physicist, Einsteins Wife. Worthy “His” Nobel Prize
#27 Ellen O’neal, One Of The Greatests Female Freestyle Skateboarders In The World (1970)
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#28 Coretta Scott King. American Author, Activist, Civil Rights Leader, And The Wife Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
#29 Smaranda Brăescu, Romanian parachuting Pioneer, Former Multiple World Record Holder (1932)
#30 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm. American Politician, Educator, And Author. In 1968, She Became The First African American Woman Elected To The United States Congress. She Served 7 Terms And Ran For The Democratic Party Nomination For Potus In 1972.
#31 Angela Davis (1944), American Political Activist, Scholar, Author & Feminist
#32 Rita Levi-Montalcini – Italian Nobel Laureate Honoured For Her Work In Neurobiology
#33 Bertha Von Suttner – First Woman Peace Activist And First Woman To Be Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
#34 Sarla Thakral Was First Indian Woman To Fly. She Earned An Aviation Pilot License In 1936 At The Age Of 21 And Flew A Gypsy Moth Solo
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#35 Billie Jean King. US Tennis Legend & Became The First Prominent Female Athlete To Come Out
#36 Girls Deliver Ice. Heavy Work That Formerly Belonged To Men Only Is Being Done By Girls (16 September, 1918)
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#37 Gertrude Caroline Ederle Became The First Woman To Swim Across The English Channel (1926)
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#38 A Woman Drinking Tea, In The Aftermath Of A German Bombing Raid During The London Blitz (1940)
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#39 Suu Kyi Was Under House Arrest For 15 Years For Her Pre-Democracy Campaigning
#40 Simone De Beauvoir, French Feminist, Who Wrote “The Manifesto Of The 343”, 1971
#41 Joan Of Arc, Nicknamed “the Maid Of Orléans,” Was Born In 1412 In Domrémy, Bar, France. A National Heroine Of France, At Age 18 She Led The French Army To Victory Over The English At Orléans. Captured A Year Later, Joan Was Burned At The Stake As A Heretic By The English And Their French Collaborators
#42 Maria Teresa De Filippis, First Female Formula 1 Driver (1958)
#43 The First European Woman Ever To Obtain A License And A Phd In Law From The University Of Paris
#44 Jackie Ormes, America’s First Black Female Cartoonist, And Creator Of Torchy Brown
#45 Jane Austen: An Influential Woman, She’s Not Just A Writer, She’s A Cult, A Brand And A Cultural Touchstone.
#46 Milunka Savić
#47 Among The Prisoners Taken On Walcheren Was This Dutch Woman With Her Husband, A German Solder, Whom She Refused To Leave (1944)
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#48 Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya – A Russian Journalist, Writer, And Human Rights Activist Known For Her Opposition To The Second Chechen War And To The Policies Of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
#49 Raina Kasabova Is A Bulgarian Military Pilot And The First Woman In The World Who Piloted A Battle Air Plane In A Combat.
#50 A Female Lockheed Employee Works On One In Burbank, California (1944)
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#51 The Night Witches – Female Soviet Pilots Of Ww2
#52 Soviet Soldier Is Given Water By A Ukrainian Woman After Being Captured During The Battle For Kiev (1941)
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#53 Leola N. King, America’s First Female Traffic Cop, Washington D.C. (1918)
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#54 This Woman Worker Pushes Back Her Helmet During A Moment’s Pause From Her Welding Job At The Richmond Shipyard In California (1943)
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#55 Elizabeth Blackwell Was A British-born Physician, Notable As The First Woman To Receive A Medical Degree.
#56 Ada Lovelace. World’s First Computer Programmer.
#57 Women Workers Employed As Wipers In The Roundhouse Having Lunch In Their Rest Room (1943)
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#58 Ceylan Ozalp, 19, Was Reportedly Surrounded By Isis Fighters Near The Syrian Kurdish City Of Kobane Also Known As Ain Al-arab. After She Run Out Of Ammunition Ozalp Said “goodbye” Over The Radio And Spent Her Last Bullet On Killing Herself.
#59 Smith College Class Of 1902 Basketball Team – Senda Berenson Introduced And Adapted The Rules For Women’s Basketball
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#60 Isidora Sekulić, The First Woman Academic In Serbian History
#61 Clara Campoamor (madrid, 12 February, 1888–lausanne, 30 April, 1972) Was A Spanish Politician And Feminist Best Known For Her Advocacy For Women’s Rights And Suffrage During The Writing Of The Spanish Constitution Of 1931.
#62 Vesna Vulović Was A Serbian Flight Attendant. She Holds The Guinness World Record For Surviving The Highest Fall Without A Parachute: 10,160 Metres, After The Explosion Of Jat Flight 367 Near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, On 26 January 1972.
#63 Siouxsie Sioux Proved Women Can Rock! She Started In 70s Punk Movement And Her Influence Is Still Evident Today.
#64 Julia Morgan (1872-1957) — Architect Famous For The Hearst Castle. The First Woman Admitted To Paris’ L’École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts For Architecture And The First Female Licensed Architect In California.
#65 Maryam Mirzakhani, An Iranian Professor Of Mathematics At Stanford And The Only Woman To Win Fields Medal, Regarded As The “nobel Prize Of Mathematics”
#66 Norwegian Suffragist And Photographer Marie Høeg Played With Gender Roles In The Studio
#67 The Badass Georgian Golden Age Queen Who Was Kingtamar Of Georgia, Who Ruled From 1184 To 1213—the Peak Of Georgia’s Golden Age
#68 The Radium Girls Were Female Factory Workers Who Contracted Radiation Poisoning From Painting Watch Dials With Self-luminous Paint At The United States Radium Factory In Orange, New Jersey, Around 1917. The Women Had Been Told The Paint Was Harmless. Five Of The Women Challenged Their Employer In A Case That Established The Right Of Individual Workers Who Contract Occupational Diseases To Sue Their Employers.
#69 Cecilia Payne-gaposchkin (1900-1979) Astrophysicist Who Explained The Composition Of Stars. .
#70 Emily Dickinson – A Prolific Private Poet, Fewer Than A Dozen Of Her Nearly 1,800 Poems Were Published During Her Lifetime
#71 Dalia Grybauskaitė – Dalia Grybauskaitė Is The President Of Lithuania, Inaugurated On 12 July 2009 And Re-elected In May 2014. She Is The Country’s First Female President And The First President Of Lithuania To Be Reelected For A Second Consecutive Term.
#72 Maria Montessori An Italian Physician And Educators Known For Philosophy The Montessori Method Which Is Used By Parents And Schools Worldwide.
#73 Djamila Bouhired Is An Algerian Militant. Bouhired Is A Nationalist Who Opposed The French Colonial Rule Of Algeria.
#74 Constance Markievicz – Constance Georgine Markievicz, Known As Countess Markievicz Was An Irish Politician, Revolutionary Nationalist, Suffragette And Socialist. In December 1918, She Was The First Woman Elected To The British House Of Commons, Though She Did Not Take Her Seat.. She Was Also The Second Woman To Hold A Cabinet Position In The World.
#75 Mother Teresa
#76 Vera Obolenskaya – A Russian Duchess And Heroine Of The French Resistance, She First Worked As A Model And As A Secretary. Vera Was An Intelligence Officer And A Spy, Organizing The Escapes Of British War Prisoners Over The Border.
#77 Karrie Keyes Has Been With Pearl Jam For 25 Years. Her Career Dates Back To When, As A Punk-loving Teenager At A Black Flag Show, She Met A Sound Engineer Who Offered Her A Job.
#78 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, First Woman To Receive An Academic Degree From A University (1678)
#79 Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister Of Israel
#80 Frida Kahlo De Rivera (spanish Pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Y Calderón, Was A Mexican Painter Known For Her Self-portraits.[2] Kahlo’s Life Began And Ended In Mexico City, In Her Home, Which Is Known As “la Casa Azul,” The Blue House. Her Work Has Been Celebrated Internationally As Emblematic Of Mexican National And Indigenous Traditions, And By Feminists For Its Uncompromising Depiction Of The Female Experience And Form.[3]
#81 Eileen Gray – An Irish Architect And Furniture Designer And A Pioneer Of The Modern Movement In Architecture.
#82 Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya 1850-1891 – A Russian Mathematician Responsible For Some Important Original Contributions To Analysis, Partial Differential Equations And Mechanics
#83 Wendy Carlos. This Talented Transgender Composer Was One Of The Pioneers Of Early Synthesized Music. She Was Responsible For Iconic Themes From “a Clockwork Orange” And “tron”.
#84 Jane Bridge: First British Gold Medal For World Championship Judo (male And Female), 3 X European Gold Medals In Judo
#85 Rachel Louise Carson (may 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) Was An American Marine Biologist And Conservationist Whose Book Silent Spring And Other Writings Are Credited With Advancing The Global Environmental Movement.
#86 Mary Seacole
#87 Juana Inés De La Cruz. Was A 17th Century Nun, Self-taught Scholar And Acclaimed Writer Of The Latin American Colonial Period And The Hispanic Baroque. She Was Also A Staunch Advocate For Women’s Rights.
#88 Vivian Maier – An American Street Photographer, Took More Than 150, 000 Pictures
#89 Black Monday- Thousands Of Polish Women Strike Against Abortion – Ban (2016!)
#90 Helen Fabela Chávez Was An American Labor Activist For The United Farm Workers Of America
#91 Nellie Mcclung- Women’s Rights Activist 1873-1951
#92 Corrie Ten Boom, Helped Many Jews Escape The Holocaust. Arrested And Imprisoned. Writer And Inspirational Speaker.
#93 Bessie Stringfield- The First Jamaican-american Woman To Ride A Motorcycle Solo Across The U.s. (1930) And One Of The Few Civilian Couriers For The Military In Wwii.
#94 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. She Was Both Iceland’s And Europe’s First Female President, And The World’s First Democratically Directly Elected Female President.
#95 In 1956 20,000 Women Marched To The Union Buildings In South Africa To Protest The Pass Laws Under The Apartheid Government . “wathint’ Abafazi, Wathint’ Imbokodo: You Strike A Woman You Strike A Rock”.
#96 Marina Tsvetaeva – A Russian And Soviet Poet.
#97 Aleksandra Samusenko Soviet Tank Commader During Ww Ii
#98 Laxmibai: The Queen Of Jhansi, India Fought Bravely Against The British East India Company. She Lost Her Life During Conflict. She Stands As A Symbol Of Strength And Bravery Among 1 Billion Indians.
#99 Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) Is A Liberian Peace Activist Responsible For Leading A Women’s Peace Movement, Women Of Liberia Mass Action For Peace That Helped Bring An End To The Second Liberian Civil War In 2003. She Received The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
#100 Kate Bush (1958). First English Female Artist To Achieve A Uk Number-one With A Self-written Song, With “wuthering Heights.” 40ish Years And 12 Records Later, She Is Still One Of The Most Influential Woman In British Pop Music.
#101 Two Women’s League Roller Derby Skaters Leap Over Two Who Have Fallen (1950)
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#102 Julia Butterfly Hill, Environmental Activist Who Lived In A 180 Foot Redwood Tree For 738 Days To Protest Deforestation
#103 Chiquinha Gonzaga Was The First Woman Conductor In Brazil, The First Pianist “choro” And The Author Of The First Carnival March In Xix Century. She Found The Brazilian Society Of Authors To Protect The Copy Rights Of Artists In Brazil. She Was Also Abolitionist And Feminist Who Had A Very Outstanding Life. Chiquinha Gonzaga Lived Further Ahead Of Her Time.
#104 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). French Composer And Conductor.
#105 Ševala Zildžić – Iblizović – First Muslim Female Doctor In Bosnia And Herzegovina
#106 Maria Odette Ferreira, Portuguese Scientist, Pharmacy Scholar At The Pharmaceutical College Of Lisbon And First Woman To Isolate The Hiv Type 2
#107 The Mothers Of The Plaza De Mayo. The Association Of Argentine Mothers Whose Children Were “disappeared” During The State Terrorism Of The Military Dictatorship, Between 1976 And 1983.
#108 Roshni: Youngest C E O Of H C L Corp, At The Age Of 31.
#109 Jovita Idar, (1885–1946, Teacher, Journalist, And Political Activist, Served As A Writer For Her Father’s Weekly Newspaper Which, In 1911, Called The First Mexican Congress To Discuss Educational, Social, Labor, And Economic Matters. Women Participated As Speakers And Participants In The First Attempt In Mexican-american History To Organize A Militant Feminist Social Movement. Jovita Became Its First President And Organized Its Principal Effort, To Provide Education For Poor Children. In 1913, During The Mexican Revolution Battles Of Nuevo Laredo, Jovita And A Friend, Leonor Villegas De Magnon, Crossed The Border To Care For The Injured, Forming La Cruz Blanca, A Medical Group Similar To The Red Cross, And Traveled In Northern Mexico With Revolutionary Forces As Nurses.
#110 Sabiha Gökçen Was The World’s First Female Combat Pilot
#111 Shikha Sharma: Ceo & Md Of Axis Bank, Worth $78 Billion Dollar. Ignores Corporate Glass Ceiling.
#112 Sophia Dhuleep Singh – Sikh Princess And Suffragette
#113 Maria De Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930-2004), Portuguese Politician, Was The First And Until Now Only Woman To Be Prime-minister Of Portugal Between July 1979 And January 1980.
#114 Neerja Bhanot, (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986),was A Purser For The Airline Pan American World Airways, Based In Mumbai, India. She Was Shot And Killed While Saving Hundreds Of Passengers On Board Pan Am Flight 73, Which Was Hijacked By Terrorists On 5 September 1986. Posthumously, She Became The Youngest Recipient Of India’s Highest Peacetime Award For Bravery, The Ashok Chakra Award. She Saved 359 People Among 379 And Was Shot While Helping Passengers Escape From The Emergency Exits.
#115 Rosa Mota, Portuguese Former Marathon Runner, Suffered From Asthma But Became World And Olympic Champion Of The Marathon (gold Medals In 1987 And 1988).
#116 Chitra Ramkrishna: Ceo And Md Of National Stock Exchange Of India. She Was The First To Touch The Glass Ceiling As A Woman.
#117 Fadumo Dayib, 1st Woman To Run For Somalian President: Refugee In Finland, Learned To Read At 14, Got Degrees In Finland And Harvard.
#118 Elvira Fortunato, Portuguese Scientist And Professor, Leader Of The Team Of Investigators Who Invented The Paper Transistor.
#119 Maria José Pereira, Portuguese Scientist At Gekco (paris, France), Is Developing A “surgical Glue” To Prevent Blood Losses. She Has Been Praised By The Mit Technology Review.
#120 Chanda Kochhar: M D And C E O Of Icici Bank, Worth $110 Billion.
#121 Rachel Fuller Brown And Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Who Discovered And Developed The First Anti-fungal Drug In 1950
#122 Eliška Junková (16 November 1900 – 5 January 1994), Born Alžběta Pospíšilová And Also Known As Elizabeth Junek, Was A Czechoslovakian Automobile Racer. She Is Regarded As One Of The Greatest Female Drivers In Grand Prix Motor Racing History.
#123 NASA Astronaut Anna Lee Fisher Became The First Mother In Space (1984)
#124 Kathrine Switzer Was The First Woman To Run The Boston Marathon (1967). When Organizer Jock Semple Realised A Woman Was Running He Tried To Tackle Her
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#125 Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor Of Kevlar
#126 Anna Honzáková (16 November 1875 – 13 October 1940) Was The First Female Doctor To Graduate From The Charles-ferdinand University In Prague, Which She Did On March 17, 1902
#127 Paula Rego, Portuguese Painter And Dame Of The British Empire, Is The First Portuguese Artist With A Work On The Permanent Exhibition At The National Gallery Of London. She Prefers Pastels Over Oil And Her Paitings Display Themes Of Feminism And Traditions Of Portugal. She Has A Museum In Honor Of Her Work: Casa Das Histórias Paula Rego.
#128 Guilhermina Augusta Suggia (1851-1932), Portuguese Cellist, One Of The First Female Professional Players Of The Cello (when Such Art Was Considered “innapropriate” For A Lady). Studied In Germany And Was A Pupil Of Famous Cellist Pablo Casals. Played With The Royal Philharmonic Society, The State Simphony Orchestra, The Bbc Symphony Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra.
#129 Eliška Junková (16 November 1900 – 5 January 1994), Born Alžběta Pospíšilová And Also Known As Elizabeth Junek, Was A Czechoslovakian Automobile Racer. She Is Regarded As One Of The Greatest Female Drivers In Grand Prix Motor Racing History.
#130 Stormé Delarverie, Early Leader In The Gay Rights Movement. Stormé Delarverie Was A Butch Lesbian Whose Purported Scuffle With Police Was One Of The Defining Moments Of The Stonewall Riots, Spurring The Crowd To Action.
#131 Sylvia Rae Rivera (july 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) Was An American Gay Liberation And Transgender Activist And Drag Queen. She Was A Founding Member Of Both The Gay Liberation Front And The Gay Activists Alliance. With Her Close Friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera Co-founded The Street Transvestite/transgender Action Revolutionaries (star), A Group Dedicated To Helping Homeless Young Drag Queens And Trans Women Of Color.
#132 Whang-od Oggay Born 17 February 1917 (age 100) Is A Filipina Tattoo Artist From Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga, Philippines. She Is Considered As The Last Mambabatok (traditional Kalinga Tattooist) From The Butbut People In Buscalan Kalinga And The Oldest Tattoo Artist In The Philippines. This Ancient Technique Of Tattoing Is Called Batok That Dates Back A Thousand Years Before Her Time Is Relatively Painful Compared To Other Conventional Techniques. Due To Her Status As The Last Mambabatok, Many Netizens Are Lobbying Her To Be One Of The National Artists Of The Philippines. Instead Of National Artist, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago Urged Her Colleagues In The Philippine Senate Through A Resolution That Whang-od Should Be Nominated As One Of The National Living Treasures Or Gawad Sa Manlilikha Ng Bayan, Which Is Equal Rank To National Artist.
#133 Maria Corazon “cory” Aquino (january 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009), Popularly Known As Cory Aquino, Was A Filipina Politician Who Was The 11th President Of The Philippines, The First Woman To Hold That Office And The First Female President In Asia. Aquino Was The Most Prominent Figure Of The 1986 People Power Revolution, Which Toppled The 21-year Authoritarian Rule Of President Ferdinand E. Marcos And Restored Democracy To The Philippines. She Was Named Time Magazine’s “woman Of The Year” In 1986.
#134 Winnie Mandela – South African Activist And Politician
#135 Hillary Rodham Clinton
#136 Mother Teresa, Who Took Care Of The Less Fortunate(lepers, Terminally Ill People Who Everyone Thought Should Be Left To Die On The Streets, The Very Poor, Disabled, Orphans, Etc) No Matter What Others Though
#137 A Group Of Women Associated With The Hells Angels (1973)
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#138 Civilians Run For Cover As German Snipers Open Fire From Buildings In Paris (26 August, 1944)
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