First women

In June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first woman to fly in space when she orbited Earth 48 times in the spacecraft Vostok 6. A crater on the Moon is named in her honor.

First American woman in space = Sally Ride, 1983

First American woman to earn a medical degree = Elizabeth Blackwell, 1849

First woman to practice law before U.S. Supreme Court = Belva Ann Lockwood, 1879

First woman named U.S. four-star general = Ann Dunwoody, 2008

First woman to run for U.S. president = Vicotria Woodhull, 1872

First African-American woman elected to Congress = Shirley Chisholm

First African-American woman to run for U. S. president = Shirley Chisholm

see: infoplease.com/spot/womensfirsts