"and was in operation until 1927. The nearest lifeboat is now based at Walmer to the north. From 1863, Oldstairs Bay at the south of Kingsdown Beach was also the location for an important Coastguard station and the substantial coastguard houses that remain (which are now privately occupied). In 1926, the first woman to swim the English Channel, 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle, made landfall at Kingsdown, after a 35-mile crossing (the direct distance is 21 miles) in record time. Kingsdown's proximity to France placed it on the front line of several wars. The defences at Walmer Castle, one mile north of"
"Gertrude Ederle Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her ""Queen of the Waves."" Gertrude Ederle was born on October 23, 1905 in Manhattan, New York City. She was the third of six children and the daughter of German immigrants, Gertrude Anna Haberstroh and Henry Ederle. According to a biography of Ederle, ""America's Girl"", her father ran a butcher shop on"
"her. <br> <br> Gertrude Ederle Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her ""Queen of the Waves."" Gertrude Ederle was born on October 23, 1905 in Manhattan, New York City. She was the third of six children and the daughter of German immigrants, Gertrude Anna Haberstroh and Henry Ederle. According to a biography of Ederle, ""America's Girl"", her father ran a"
"Bowling Congress, the all-female counterpart to the 1895-founded all-male American Bowling Congress for the tenpin bowling sport is established. 1922 - The U.S. Field Hockey Association, the National Governing Body for field hockey in the United States, was established. 1923 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) sponsored the first national championships for women in track and field 1924 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) held the first national basketball tournament for women with six teams. 1926 - The Amateur Athletic Union sponsored the first-ever national women's basketball championship. 1926 - New York City native Gertrude Ederle became the first woman"
"and dating. Women achieved many groundbreaking firsts in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for her novel ""The Age of Innocence"". In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman elected as a governor in the United States, for the state of Wyoming. Also in 1925, the World Exposition of Women's Progress (the first women's world's fair) opened in Chicago. In 1926, Gertrude Ederle, born in New York, became the first woman to swim across the English channel, arriving in almost two hours less time than any"
"and remember the sisters and orphans that died that day. The Sisters of Charity created an audio CD titled Queen of the Waves: Centennial Remembrance of The Great Storm of 1900, and MP3 audio files are available from the official 1900 Storm Remembrance Site. This CD tells the story of the Saint Mary's Orphanage during the 1900 Storm and includes the song Queen of the Waves. Also, Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926 was popularly known in the press as ""Queen of the Waves."" Queen of the Waves Queen of the Waves is"
"comparing finish times from performances undertaken on different days meaningless. One of the earliest marathon swims was accomplished in 1875 by Captain Matthew Webb, when he became the first person to swim across the English Channel. Similarly, perhaps the most famous marathon swim of all-time was accomplished in 1926 by Gertrude Ederle, when she became, at 19 years of age, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. In doing so, she demolished the existing world record for the crossing, by employing the crawl stroke technique. The Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming includes three of the most well-known"
"thirty-one minutes, beating the best time to date. 1926 – Violet Piercy, an English long-distance runner, was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations as having set the first women's world best in the marathon on 3 October with a time of 3:40:22. Piercy was reported to have run unofficially, and her mark was set on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London. 1926 – 1926 Women's World Games, held in Gothenburg, Sweden 1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge was held on The Isis in Oxford, England."
"not want Ederle to succeed. Her successful Channel swim – this time training with coach Bill Burgess who had successfully swum the Channel in 1911 – began approximately one year later at Cape Gris-Nez in France at 07:08 on the morning of August 6, 1926. She came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, 14 hours and 34 minutes later. Her record stood until Florence Chadwick swam the channel in 1950 in 13 hours and 20 minutes. Ederle used motorcycle goggles to protect her eyes from salty water, as did Burgess in 1911. However, while Burgess swam breaststroke, she used crawl, and therefore"
"at the Women’s Swimming Association. In 1926 Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel beating the men’s time by over two hours. Epstein served as manager of the U.S. Women's Olympic Swimming Team for the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Olympic Games, and became well known as a spokesperson for female athletes. She boycotted 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin to protest Nazi policies. She died shortly after, in 1938. Charlotte Epstein Charlotte ""Eppie"" Epstein coached the United States Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 1920s and founded the Women's Swimming Association. She was known as ""Mother of Women's"
"successfully appealed to Benito Mussolini to retrieve the award. Tirabocchi credited American Gertrude Ederle with having made ""a marvelous swim"" in 1926, when she finished in 14 hours and 39 minutes, cutting almost two full hours off his record time, saying that her pace was not a matter of luck but was part of the ""excellent constitution... [and] great powers of resistance"" needed to complete the swim. Enrique Tirabocchi Enrique Tirabocchi (variously spelled as Enrico Tiraboschi) was an Argentinian marathon swimmer who in August 1926 became the fourth person to successfully swim across the English Channel. He was the first"
"Oscar von Sydow). The games attended an audience of 20,000 spectators and several world records were set. Also Sophie Mary Eliott-Lynn competed at javelin throw coming fourth with a throw of 44.63 metres and Mary Weston finished sixth in the shot put. 1926 Women's World Games The 1926 Women's World Games (Swedish II Internationella Kvinnliga Idrottsspelen, French 2èmes Jeux Féminins Mondiaux ) were the second regular international Women's World Games, the tournament was held between 27 – 29 August at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg. The games were organized by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale under Alice Milliat as a"
"Stamata Revithi, who ran the 1896 Olympic course a day after Louis, is the first woman to run the modern marathon. The IAAF credits Violet Piercy's 1926 performance as the first woman to race what is now the standard marathon distance; however, other sources report that the 1918 performance of Marie-Louise Ledru in the Tour de Paris set the initial mark for women. Other ""unofficial"" performances have also been reported to be world bests or world records over time. Although her performance is not recognized by the IAAF, Adrienne Beames from Australia is frequently credited as the first woman to"
"1927 – Women's Eights Head of the River Races began in London, England, one year after the first men's race. 1928 – The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, included women's athletics and team gymnastics for the first time. 1930 – Frenchwomen Marguerite Mareuse and Odette Siko became the first women to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 7th overall. 1930 – 1930 Women's World Games, held in Prague, Czechoslovakia 1931 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned women from professional baseball in America. He felt that he needed to after a seventeen-year-old pitcher Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell"
"West and East courses at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York open for play, designed by A.W. Tillinghast. 1924 Joyce Wethered wins her record fifth consecutive English Ladies' Championship. The Olympic Club in San Francisco opens for play. The USGA legalizes steel shafted golf clubs. The R & A does not follow suit until 1929, widening the breach in The Rules of Golf. 1925 The first fairway irrigation system is developed in Dallas, Texas. Deep-grooved irons are banned by both the USGA and the R & A. 1926 Jess Sweetser becomes the first native-born American to win the"
"She became chairperson of the Red Cross Appeal Committee and was rewarded when, in 1920, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In her final years, she was an Australian delegate to the 1925 International Conference of Women held in the United States. She helped to found the Royal Western Australian Historical Society in 1926 and assisted in the planning of Western Australia's 1929 Centenary celebrations. Though she remained involved in social issues, illness forced her to withdraw somewhat from public life in later years. In 1921, Western Australia passed legislation allowing women to"
"the silver medal in the long jump, in 1926 she again represented the United Kingdom at javelin at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg, coming fourth with a throw of 44.63 metres. The following year, Lady Heath became the first woman to hold a commercial flying licence in Britain and along the way, set records for altitude in a small plane and later a Shorts seaplane, was the first woman to parachute from an aeroplane (landing in the middle of a football match). After her great flight from the Cape, she took a mechanic's qualification in the USA, the"
"in the games was the biggest disappointment of her career."" Still, she was proud to have been a part of the American team that brought home 99 medals from the Paris Olympics. It was an illustrious Olympic team – swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, oarsman Benjamin Spock, tennis player Helen Wills, and long-jumper DeHart Hubbard, who, according to ""America's Girl"", was ""the first black man to win an individual gold."" The U.S. Olympic team had its own ticker-tape parade in 1924. In 1925, Ederle turned professional. The same year she swam the 22 miles from Battery Park to Sandy Hook in 7"
"stroked out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game. 1932 – Odette Siko became the first woman to achieve a class win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. 1932 – The American Babe Didrikson was named the Associate Press Woman Athlete of the Year for track and field after she scored enough points at the AAU national meet to win the team championship by herself. She scored thirty points, eight points more than the whole second place team earned. 1934 – The inaugural international Women's Test cricket match took place between the England national women's cricket team"
"drawn up, by submitting a document called ""What Women Demand"" which addressed needs such as child care provisions, housing, education, equal pay, and equal rights with men in regard to property, marriage and guardianship of children. By 1956 their focus had shifted towards a protest concerning the introduction of passes for black women. The march took place on 9 August 1956 with an estimated 20,000 women of all races descending on Pretoria. The day of the protest was called for on a Thursday, the traditional day when black domestic workers had their day off, with the aim of ensuring a"
"latter part of the 19th century when Captain Matthew Webb made the first observed and unassisted swim across the Strait of Dover, swimming from England to France on 24–25 August 1875 in 21 hours 45 minutes. In 1927, at a time when fewer than ten swimmers (including the first woman, Gertrude Ederle in 1926) had managed to emulate the feat and many dubious claims were being made, the Channel Swimming Association (CSA) was founded to authenticate and ratify swimmers' claims to have swum the Channel and to verify crossing times. The CSA was dissolved in 1999 and was succeeded by"
"was barred from a meeting the secretary appeared to vouch for her. The Women's Engineering Society had been founded in 1919, and Entwisle was one of its founder members. She was a member of Council, first secretary of the Manchester Branch and President from 1941-1943. Gertrude Lilian Entwisle Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (12 June 1892–18 November 1961) was an electrical engineer who was the first student member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology) and the first female engineer to work at British Westinghouse. Entwisle was known for her work on designing DC motors and"
"1926 Women's World Games The 1926 Women's World Games (Swedish II Internationella Kvinnliga Idrottsspelen, French 2èmes Jeux Féminins Mondiaux ) were the second regular international Women's World Games, the tournament was held between 27 – 29 August at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg. The games were organized by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale under Alice Milliat as a response to the IOC refusal to include women's events in the 1924 Olympic Games. The games were attended by 100 participants from 9 nations: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Great Britain, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Kinue Hitomi was the sole participant from"
"reflected in the recognition of a Decoration to military participants for their marching skills (the Four Days Cross) by Queen Wilhelmina in October 1909. Utrecht (1911), Nieuw-Milligen (1916), Den Bosch (1918), Amersfoort (1919) and Breda (1924) joined Nijmegen as a starting point or centre of the Four Days Marches, before Nijmegen became the permanent host of the Four Days Marches in 1925. Despite a gradual rise in the number of civilian participants, it was not until 1919 that the first woman successfully completed the Four Days Marches: Mrs N. van Stockum-Metelerkamp from Amersfoort. In 1928 the first walking club was"
"of Christ, the highest chivalric order awarded by the Pope. She was made a papal duchess in 1926 by Pope Pius XI. She was also made a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Dame of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. Under First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt she served as vice chairman of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization. She was the founder of the Carroll Club, a society for Catholic businesswomen, and the board chairman for the Girl Scouts of the USA. In 1936, a property she"
"first woman to be officially timed in a marathon, in 1926. Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she completed the Pikes Peak Marathon in Manitou Springs, Colorado, in 1959. Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon ""officially"" (with a number). However, Switzer's entry, which was accepted through an ""oversight"" in the screening process, was in ""flagrant violation of the rules"", and she was treated as an interloper once the error was discovered. Bobbi Gibb had completed the Boston race unofficially the previous year (1966), and was"
"place team earned. 1936 - The All American Red Heads Team, a barnstorming troupe similar to the Bloomer Girls, was formed. It is generally regarded as the first women's professional basketball team. 1936 - Ruth Hughes Aarons was the first American that won the world singles table tennis championship. 1937 - Grace Hudowalski was the ninth person and first woman to climb all 46 of the Adirondack High Peaks. 1943 - The All-American Girls Softball League was formed under Chicago White Sox owner Philip Wrigley. The League gradually transformed into the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. 1949 - Marcenia Lyle"
"on several occasions. On 16 August 1926 70,000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Aerodrome upon the arrival of aviation pioneer Alan Cobham when he landed his de Havilland DH.50 floatplane, flown from England to Australia. Essendon Aerodrome was the location of the first parachute jump by a woman in Australia. On 21 November 1937 Jean Burns, a seventeen year old member of the Aero Club, leapt from a DH4 in front of a crowd of hundreds of people and landed in a nearby paddock. The Aerodrome was extended with additional land during the 1930s. The grass was"
"Gertrude Lilian Entwisle Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (12 June 1892–18 November 1961) was an electrical engineer who was the first student member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology) and the first female engineer to work at British Westinghouse. Entwisle was known for her work on designing DC motors and exciters. Entwisle was educated at Manchester High School for Girls and obtained a scholarship to the University of Manchester where she studied from 1911-1914. Entwisle originally studied physics, but was able to attend engineering classes when they were opened to female students. In 1915, at"
"New York World's Fair. She had poor hearing since childhood due to measles, and by the 1940s she was almost completely deaf. Aside from her time in Vaudeville, Trudy taught swimming to deaf children. She never married and she was living in an old peoples home in 2001. She died on November 30, 2003, in Wyckoff, New Jersey, at the age of 98. She was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. Ederle was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an ""Honor Swimmer"" in 1965. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall"
"Thames. Her first significant record was for 10 hr 45 min she spent swimming in the Thames. This was the longest time for a woman in 1923. She attracted attention when, at the eighth attempt, she became the first English woman to swim the English Channel, on 7 October 1927. The record was in doubt when in the following days another woman claimed to have swum the channel faster. Her version of events proved to be a fabrication but the effect of this hoax undermined Gleitze's claim. Under pressure from the media she agreed to undertake a ""vindication swim"" even"
"of Fame in 2003. She is mentioned in Episode 11 of the first season of ""Barney Miller"" by the Bird Man character Roland Gusik, as being one who lived her dreams, and did not allow them to be stopped. An annual swim from New York City's Battery Park to Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called the Ederle Swim in memory of Gertrude Ederle, and follows the course she swam. The Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center is located in Manhattan. A BBC Radio 4 play, ""The Great Swim"", by Anita Sullivan, based on the 2008 book of the same name by Gavin"
"National Women's Day National Women's Day is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as ""black"" under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a pass, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era. The first National Women's Day was celebrated on 9 August 1994. In 2006, a reenactment of the march was staged for its 50th"