10 Women who Were the First People to Achieve Historic Milestones

On this International Women's Day, we're celebrating 10 women who were the first in their field--not the first women, just the first. Annie Edison Taylor –first person to go in a barrel over Niagara falls (okay, perhaps this doesn't fall into the category of "historic," but it's still cool.) Marie Curie –first to win Nobel Prizes in Two Different Fields (chemistry and physics) Lady Gaga—first to have 30 million Twitter followers Margaret Knight—invented the ...

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