"the Profumo affair. Commentary notes Citations Profumo affair The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model. In March 1963, Profumo's denial of any impropriety, in a personal statement to the House of Commons, was refuted a few weeks later with his admission of the truth. He resigned from the government and from Parliament. The repercussions of the affair severely damaged Macmillan's self-confidence, and he resigned as Prime Minister on health"
"Court of SA-the first woman to become a judge in Australia. Oct 7 Sir Robert Menzies appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Nov 7 Underground fire at the Bulli colliery, NSW; four miners killed. 16 Economic sanctions imposed on Rhodesia following that country's unilateral declaration of independence. - Churchill Fellowships awarded for the first time. Dec 15 Harry Chan becomes the first elected president of the NT Legislative Council. - First section of the Sydney-Newcastle expressway opened. Light Fingers won the Melbourne Cup. Cricket: Australia lose a five test series away to the West Indies 2-1. The West Indies"
"the first woman in space. In 1965, Soviets launched the first probe to hit another planet of the Solar system (Venus), Venera 3, and the first probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the moon, Luna 9. In March 1966, the Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. The deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee in the Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967 put a temporary hold on the U.S. space program, but afterward progress was steady, with"
"jerk. 1985 – The American Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the Iditarod (Mary Shields was the first woman to complete the race in 1974, finishing 23rd). 1985 – The United States national soccer team was formed. 1986 – The American Ann Bancroft was the first woman to reach the North Pole by foot and dogsled, and ""...she became the first known woman to cross the ice to the North Pole."" 1987 – Tania Aebi completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe in a 26-foot sailboat between the ages of 18 and 21, making her the first American"
"sixth overall and became the first Ironwoman. 1980 - The first woman to run a mile under four and a half minutes was Mary Decker. 1982 - The National Collegiate Athletic Association began sponsoring women's basketball. 1984 - The U.S. Women's softball team won the championship in the first Women's International Cup played in Los Angeles, beating China, 1-0. 1984 - Joan Benoit of the U.S. won the first Olympic marathon for women. 1985 - Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the Iditarod. 1985 - Karyn Marshall became the first woman in history to clean and jerk over"
", with a 303 lb (137.5 kg) clean and jerk. 1985 - The United States national soccer team was formed. 1986 - Ann Bancroft was the first woman to reach the North Pole by foot and dogsled, ""...she became the first known woman to cross the ice to the North Pole."" 1986 - Nancy Lieberman joined the United States Basketball League (USBL), thus becoming the first woman to play in a men's professional basketball league. 1987 - Tania Aebi completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe in a 26-foot sailboat between the ages of 18 and 21, making her the"
"attended by Sian Davies and Sally Slowe of Cheltenham Ladies' College (see photo in ""Wisden at Lord's"", page 129) breaking the 'gender barrier'. The first Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England in 1973, funded in part by businessman Jack Hayward, and won by the hosts at Lords in front of Princess Anne. Enid Bakewell and Lynne Thomas, making their international debuts for England, scored unbeaten hundreds against an International XI in Brighton in a stand of 246, a record which stood for a quarter of a century . Lord's staged its first women's Test match in 1979, between"
"Derby was frequently mentioned in the television series, The Astronaut Wives Club (2015). Trudy Olson Cooper (1927-1994), the wife of astronaut, Gordon Cooper, was a pilot who is depicted as longing to fly in such a race. In 1970, Trudy Cooper did fly the first leg of the race. Powder Puff Derby (1947) The Powder Puff Derby was the name given to an annual transcontinental air race for women pilots inaugurated in 1947. For the next two years it was named the ""Jacqueline Cochran All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race"" (AWTAR). It was dubbed the """"Powder Puff Derby"""" in reference to the"
"extends back to at least 1831 when Mr J Longford (one of the local brewers) bought 10 acres of the Lewes Priory Grounds from the Earl of Chichester and made some of the grounds known as the 'Dripping Pan' available for cricket 1960 H. Pett 1961 J. Winter 1962 J. Winter 1963 R.C. Cosham 1964 R.C. Cosham 1965 R.C. Cosham 1966 J. O'Connor 1967 J. O'Connor 1968 J. O'Connor 1969 R.C. Cosham 1970 S.B. Hughes 1972 S.B. Hughes 1973 C.H. Johnson 1974 C.H. Johnson 1975 J. O'Connor 1976 J. O'Connor 1977 J. O'Connor 1978 J. O'Connor 1979 J. O'Connor 1980"
"residential development in Stafford in the West Midlands of England has a street named Helen Sharman Drive in her honour. and more recently a block of student flats in Sheffield bear her name. She has received a number of honorary degrees from UK universities, including: Helen Sharman Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the ""Mir"" space station in 1991. Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School, later moving to Greenhill. After studying at"
"2016 Timeline of women in Antarctica This is a Timeline of women in Antarctica. This article describes many of the firsts and accomplishments that women from various countries have accomplished in different fields of endeavor on the continent of Antarctica. 650 1773 1776-1777 1833 1839 1931 1935 1937 1947 1947-1948 1956 1957 1959 1959-1960 1960 1968 1969 1970 1971 1974 1974-1975 1975 1975-1976 1976 1977 1978 1979 1978-1979 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1987-1988 1988-1989 1989 1989-1990 1990-1991 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014"
"with flavourant properties of chocolate. After responding to a radio advertisement asking for applicants to be the first British astronaut, Helen Sharman was selected for the mission live on ITV, on 25 November 1989, ahead of nearly 13,000 other applicants. The programme was known as Project Juno and was a cooperative Soviet Union–British mission co-sponsored by a group of British companies. Sharman was selected in a process that gave weight to scientific, educational and aerospace backgrounds as well as the ability to learn a foreign language. A lottery was one of several schemes used to raise money to underwrite the"
"O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and became the first female Supreme Court Justice. In 1983, Sally Ride became the first female American astronaut. In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman nominated for Vice President by a major party (the Democratic Party), although she was not elected. Also, in 1984 Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. In 1987, Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to be elected chief of a major Native American tribe (Cherokee). In 1991, she was re-elected with 83% of the vote; during her tenure the Cherokee nation's membership"
"in Mid-Lothian, Scotland. 1811 – The first women's golf tournament is held at the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club, Scotland. 1819 – Mms. Adolphe became the first woman to perform on a tightrope in the US in New York City. 1825 – Madame Johnson took off in a hot air balloon in New York, landing in a New Jersey swamp. 1842 – English rower Ann Glanville achieved national celebrity becoming known as the champion female rower of the world; her all-women crew often winning against the best male teams. 1850 – A new style of women's dress, first introduced by Fanny"
"tenpin bowling tournament is first established. 1966 - The first intercollegiate women's basketball tournament was played in Pennsylvania. 1966 - Roberta Louise ""Bobbi"" Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon. 1967 - Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin became the first female jockey to win a race in the United States. 1970 - Mary Jo Peppler of the United States was voted the most outstanding volleyball player in the world at the International Games in Bulgaria. 1971 - Cheryl White, an American,"
"Helen Sharman Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the ""Mir"" space station in 1991. Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School, later moving to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, she obtained a BSc degree in chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1984 and a PhD degree from Birkbeck, University of London. She worked as a research and development technologist for GEC in London and later as a chemist for Mars dealing"
"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"
"1991, British chemist Helen Sharman was selected from a pool of 13,000 applicants to be the first Briton in space. The program was known as Project Juno and was a cooperative arrangement between the Soviet Union and a group of British companies. The Project Juno consortium failed to raise the funds required, and the program was almost canceled. Reportedly Mikhail Gorbachev ordered it to proceed under Soviet expense in the interests of international relations, but in the absence of Western underwriting, less expensive experiments were substituted for those in the original plans. Sharman flew aboard Soyuz TM-12 to Mir and"
"Timeline of women in Antarctica This is a Timeline of women in Antarctica. This article describes many of the firsts and accomplishments that women from various countries have accomplished in different fields of endeavor on the continent of Antarctica. 650 1773 1776-1777 1833 1839 1931 1935 1937 1947 1947-1948 1956 1957 1959 1959-1960 1960 1968 1969 1970 1971 1974 1974-1975 1975 1975-1976 1976 1977 1978 1979 1978-1979 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1987-1988 1988-1989 1989 1989-1990 1990-1991 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2013"
"since inauguration, though the sponsorship has changed. There is now one 50 over competition, which is called the Royal London One-Day Cup. The first Limited Overs International (LOI) or One-Day International (ODI) match was played in Melbourne in 1971, and the quadrennial cricket World Cup began in 1975. Many of the ""packaging"" innovations, such as coloured clothing, were as a result of World Series Cricket, a ""rebel"" series set up outside the cricketing establishment by Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer. For more details, see History of cricket. Twenty20, a curtailed form of one-day cricket with 20 overs per side, was first"
"she was a pilot, flight instructor and check pilot. In 1961, Leverton was selected for what is now known as the “Mercury 13” project, a privately funded program that enlisted women to undergo some of the same physical and psychological tests as the “Mercury 7” male astronauts. Although it was never an official NASA program, members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (also known as FLATs) secretly trained to become astronauts for America's first human spaceflight program in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Leverton moved to Phoenix and then to Prescott, where she started her business, Aviation Resource Management"
"on women's boxing in October 1993. 1993 - Julie Krone became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she won the Belmont Stakes. 1995 - Ila Borders was the first woman to pitch in a men's collegiate baseball game. 1996 - Women's soccer and women's softball became medal sports at the Olympic Games for the first time; both events were won by US teams. 1996 - Dot Richardson hit the first home run in Olympic softball history, helping the U.S. softball team win the gold medal. 1996 - Spalding Sports introduced the first baseball glove specifically"
"and 23 minutes was also record-breaking. The DH.88 Comet has since been restored, and is now held at the Shuttleworth Collection. On 20 November, they arrived back at Croydon in dense fog, having broken several records and covered about 14,690 miles in less than six days. As a result, Clouston was awarded the Britannia Trophy and the Segrave Trophy, and Betty was awarded the Segrave Medal. On 4 December 1937, Clouston married Elsie Turner, the daughter of engineer Samuel Turner of Farnborough; they subsequently had two daughters. In December 1937, Daily Express air correspondent Victor Ricketts proposed to Clouston that"
"She was selected for the astronaut program in 1990. Collins married pilot Pat Youngs in 1987; they have two children. Collins was selected to be an astronaut in 1990 and first flew the Space Shuttle as pilot in 1995 aboard STS-63, which involved a rendezvous between ""Discovery"" and the Russian space station ""Mir"". In recognition of her achievement as the first female Shuttle Pilot, she received the Harmon Trophy. She was also the pilot for STS-84 in 1997. Collins was also the first female commander of a U.S. Spacecraft with Shuttle mission STS-93, launched in July 1999, which deployed the"
"first of five Wimbledon titles for Venus Williams. In order to celebrate the millennium, the All England Club invited all surviving singles champions, any player that had appeared in two or more singles finals without winning the championship, and any player who had won four or more doubles titles, to a presentation ceremony on Centre Court on Saturday, July 1. Each honouree was presented with a crystal plate, engraved with their name, by the President of the Lawn Tennis Association, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester. Those who attended were (in order of presentation): Andre Agassi, Ken McGregor, Bob"
"orbit on March 18, 1965. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) Dec 21–27, 1968, when the Apollo 8 mission took them to 10 orbits around the Moon and back. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space on July 25, 1984. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Eileen Collins was the first female shuttle pilot, and with shuttle mission STS-93 in 1999 she"
"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."
"Club in 1982, when he retook his position as player liaison. The incident created a media frenzy, drawing public attention to both Tinling and Moran. While the Wimbledon officials accused Moran of ""putting sin and vulgarity into tennis"", the media dubbed her ""Gorgeous Gussie"". According to Tinling himself, ""the situation snowballed out of all proportion. Gussie was inundated with requests for personal appearances – hospitals, garden fetes and beauty contests. The Marx Brothers, in London at the time, invited her to join their act. A racehorse, an aircraft and a restaurant's special sauce were named after her. She was voted"
"first wanted to delay her nomination for one year, but, after pressure, they changed their mind and sent Morris's application to the membership committee. By 1988, however, ""about a dozen women"" had joined the club, one of whom was Brooke Knapp, an aviator who was the first pilot to circle the Earth at the poles in a private jet, but they were forbidden to enter the men's library, grill and bar. The city attorney in January of that year was preparing a suit against the club to end that practice. Knapp said she opposed the suit because it might ""engender"
"addition, the crew performed 10 engineering tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 9 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth in over 336 hours. She is married to former astronaut Robert L. Gibson of Cooperstown, New York, with whom she has three children. In 2015, Seddon was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. Margaret Rhea Seddon Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is a physician and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women, she flew on three"
"to sports and society on a day during the first week of February. 1988 - Shawna Robinson was the first woman to win a NASCAR-sanctioned stock car race, winning in the Charlotte/Daytona Dash Series at New Asheville Speedway. 1988 - Stacy Allison became the first American woman to climb Mount Everest. 1989 – Julie Croteau was the first woman to play NCAA baseball on first base for Division III St. Mary's (MD) College. 1991 - The first FIFA Women's World Cup tournament was held and won by the United States women's national soccer team. 1992 - Major League Baseball lifted"
"1961; the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963; Alexey Leonov, the first person to walk in space in 1965; the first soft landing on the moon by spacecraft Luna 9 in 1966; and the first moon rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2. Khrushchev initiated ""The Thaw"", a complex shift in political, cultural and economic life in the Soviet Union. This included some openness and contact with other nations and new social and economic policies with more emphasis on commodity goods, allowing living standards to rise dramatically while maintaining high levels of economic growth. Censorship was relaxed as well."
"and World XI players, halting play until he was spear tackled to the ground by field personnel. In one notable incident in 1977, Australian test cricketer Greg Chappell spanked an invading streaker named Bruce McCauley with his cricket bat; McCauley then fell to the ground and was arrested by police. Former cricket streaker Sheila Nicholls went on to have a successful career in the American music business. In 1989 Nicholls ran onto Lord's cricket ground fully nude and did a cartwheel to the crowd. She was photographed and filmed full frontal on live TV. The English glamour model Linsey Dawn"