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The island was inhabited, though many of the people fled the Spanish landing. The Spaniards found some women and children hiding in the island's vegetation and gave them gifts. Before leaving the islands on January 6, 1543, Villalobos sighted islands that may have included Wotje, Erikub, Maloelap, Likiep, Kwajalein, Lae, Ujae, Wotho or Ujelang ...
First woman to circumnavigate the world by automobile Rosie Swale-Pope: Swiss, Irish, and British 1946: Has run, walked and sailed around the world Junko Tabei: Japanese 1939: 2016: First woman to reach summit of Mount Everest Annie Edson Taylor: American 1838: 1921: First person to survive a trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel Gudrid ...
Hilbert's tenth problem has been solved, and it has a negative answer: such a general algorithm does not exist. This is the result of combined work of Martin Davis, Yuri Matiyasevich, Hilary Putnam and Julia Robinson which spans 21 years, with Yuri Matiyasevich completing the theorem in 1970. [68]
Approximately 159 Icelanders' lives have been confirmed to have been lost in World War II hostilities. [40] Most were killed on cargo and fishing vessels sunk by German aircraft, U-boats or mines. [40] [41] An additional 70 Icelanders died at sea, but it has not been confirmed whether they lost their lives as a result of hostilities. [40] [41]
The Cook Islands are in direct line along the migration path and may have been an intermediate stopping point. There are cultural and language similarities between Cook Islanders and New Zealand Māori. Early Māori had different legends of their origins, but the stories were misunderstood and reinterpreted in confused written accounts by early ...
4. The president declares every March Women's History Month. Since 1995, every president has issued a proclamation declaring March Women's History Month, usually with a statement about its ...
1908–09 – Frederick Cook and Peary each claim to have reached the North Pole—the former is a fraud, the latter widely doubted. [122] 1910–11 – Bernhard Hantzsch crosses Baffin Island from Cumberland Sound to the Koukdjuak River, exploring the west coast of the island north to 68°45’N. [78]
Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline ...