On this day in 1996, Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st female Episcopal Bishop in New York.
On this day in 1964, Margaret Chase Smith, tried for the Republican bid.
Born this day in 1934, Edith Cresson, the first and still the only woman Prime Minster of France from May 15, 1991 to April 2, 1992. Less than a year, the shortest term on record. Cresson is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders
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