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Toni Morrison

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* Tabitha Brufal

 ..... FIRST woman President of Oxford Athletic Club (King's) in 1989

* Tae Satoya

..... FIRST Japanese woman ever to win gold in an Olympic Winter Games

* Takako Doi

born 1929

..... in September 1986 she became the FIRST woman to head a major political Japanese party when elected chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Japan. On July 31st 1991 she resigned from the post and took responsibility for the party's loss in the 12th national unified elections held in April. During her term of office she led the anti-consumption tax campaign and succeeded in opening the door to allow more women to participate in national and local assemblies

* Tamara Lobova

..... FIRST camerawoman (feature) when she worked on the film Suvurov (USSR) 1941

* Tamara ... born 1937... and Irina... born 1939 ... Press

..... Russian sisters who threw the FIRST 17m and 18m shot puts in the discus

* Tammy Jernigan, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Margaret Rhea Seddon and Helen Sharman

...... FIRST four women were in space at the same time - the first three in the American shuttle Columbia and Helen in the Soviet Mir station

* Tammy Wynette

 born May 5th 1942 died April 6th 1998

neé Virginia Wynette Pugh

..... FIRST female country artist to achieve a million-selling album. Known to many as the 'First Lady of Country Music' she went to Nashville in 1966 to pursue a career in music and met Billy Sherrill with whom she wrote her signature hit Stand By Your Man

* Tamsin Garfield

..... member of the FIRST all-women action team in the Royal Tournament at Earl's Court in May 1992

* Tankai Nakajima

.....on 24th June 1988 she became one of the FIRST two women to be promoted to the highest rank of priesthood in the Tendai-Sect of Buddhism. At the time she was the head monk of Kohdohgyogan Temple in Kyoto. The other woman was Chikoh Komatsu , head monk of Jakkoin Temple in Kyoto. The appointments were considered the opening of a door in the Tendai-Sect's 1200-year history

* Tania Follett

..... FIRST British woman to work in a boxing corner - 1993

* Tansu Ciller

born 1946-

..... on 14th June 1993 she became the FIRST woman Prime Minister in Turkey when she won the leadership of the country's True Path party with 933 votes after a formal second ballot

* Tanya Chapman

 ..... FIRST ever Personal Assistant of the Year in London in 1984, having won the title for her enthusiasm and sense of humour

* Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

..... FIRST person to experience The Chamber Live : Serial Killers, the new attraction at Madame Tussaud's in London, after spending the night there in March 2003

* Tarja Halonen

..... FIRST woman President of Finland in 2000 when she defeated her conservative male rival. Aged 56 years she was a lawyer and campaigned on promises to preserve the "Nordic model'  welfare state and defend human rights and minorities

* Tarnya Hulme

..... in 2001 she became the FIRST nurse consultant at the South Manchester NHS Trust. She worked in urology at Withington Hospital and was skilled in minor operations, diagnosing cancer and able to give chemotherapy

* Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina

 born 1951

 ..... FIRST woman to run the 1500 metres in under 4 mins in 1976 and the only woman to win an Olympic double at 800 metres and 1500 metres

* Tatyana Petrovna Nikolaieva

 born May 4th 1924 died 1993

..... Russian pianist, composer and teacher who gave the FIRST performances of the Shostakovich in London in December 1952. She made her public debut in 1945 and in 1959 became a teacher at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where she was appointed professor six years later. She had 50 concertos in her repertory and made more than 150 recordings but did not play in the West until the 1980s

* Taylor Bumstead - Mrs (Christian name not known)

..... the FIRST Forewoman of a jury  as the only female member of the jury in the Common Serjeant's Court

* Te Rangimaria Ngarimu

..... FIRST woman contract killer in Britain. In 1994 she was jailed for life at the Old Bailey for the murder of roofing contractor Graeme Woodhatch after being promised £7000 by a boyfriend if she would carry out the shooting

* Teresa of Avila St

born 1515 died 1582

..... and St Catherine of Sienna (Caterina Benincasa)

born 1347 died 1380

 ..... FIRST two women ever to be officially declared doctors of the church

* Teresa Billington-Grieg

..... FIRST suffragette to be sent to Holloway Gaol and FIRST woman national organiser in the Independent Labour Party

* Teresa Graham

..... FIRST woman to join the EDUs advisory panel in 1988 and in 1989 became the FIRST woman to win the Reed Young Accountant of the Year Award

* Teresa Smith

..... FIRST living liver donor in America when she gave part of her liver to her daughter Alyssa in a 14-hour procedure in November 1989. Both parents offered to become donors to save their daughter but Teresa's was found to be more compatible

* Teruko Kanehira

..... on May 12th 1991 she became vice governor of Tokyo, the FIRST woman 'prefectural-level government' vice governor. A psychologist, she began working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 1950 and headed the Social Welfare Bureau from 1981 to 1985 before retiring. Her appointment was followed by the second in Okinawa prefecture, when Hiroko Sho, professor at Ryukyu University, was appointed. She was known as a researcher on eating habits in Okinawa. Earlier, in December 1990, in Okinawa, the appointment of a woman vice governor was rejected by the prefectural assembly on the grounds that the candidate, a woman dentist, had no administrative experience

* Tessa Jowell

..... Britain's FIRST Minister for Public Health

* Tessa Sanderson

 born 1956

(Theresa Ione)

..... FIRST black athlete and only British woman to win an Olympic throwing title.  She also won three Commonwealth gold medals and a European silver

* Tessie O'Shea

 neé Teresa Mary

 born 13th March 1913 died April 21st 1995

..... all round entertainer who was known as ' Two Ton Tessie'. By the age of three she had her first tap shoes, at seven she was winning dancing competitions and at the age of nine got her first ukulele, which became her trademark. Among the songs that she was the FIRST artist to perform are Red Roses For a Blue Lady, I'd Like To Get You On A Slow Boat To China and ten years before Tony Bennett recorded it, she sang I Left My Heart In San Francisco

* Theda Bara

 born July 20th 1890 died 1955

.....  the FIRST totally manufactured star and the FIRST sex star or ' vamp'. She was born Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnatti, Ohio and her stage name was an anagram of Arab Death as she was introduced to the public as the evil daughter of an Egyptian seeress. Her first film in 1915 was a box-office sensation and her phrase 'Kiss me, my fool' became immensely popular. In four years she made 39 films playing such parts as Cleopatra, Salomie and Madame Dubarry and was the biggest ever box office star of the silent era. Her career ended in 1919 when she demanded more money. Public taste also began to change and she eventually went on stage

* Thelma Carpenter

born December 4th 1911 died 1998

..... women's amateur billiards champion from 1932 to 1934, profession champion from 1940 to 1950 she was the FIRST woman to commentate on billiards for the BBC . In 1934 she resigned from the Women's Billiards Association after it refused to allow her to play in mixed tournaments over which it had no control and with some other women players she turned professional

* Theresa May

..... in July 2002 she became the FIRST woman chair of the Tories in the party's history when she replaced David Davis

* Therese Peltier

..... FIRST woman to fly as an aeroplane passenger when she was taken for a short flight in a Voisin at Turin on 8th July 1908. The pilot was Delagrange. She later piloted herself but never attempted to obtain a licence

* Thouret - Madame

..... in 1785 she was the FIRST woman to receive artificial insemination. She was the wife of Monsieur Thoret, doyen of the medical Faculty at Paris University and he made an intravaginal injection of sperm on his sterile wife with a tin syringe. The result was the birth of a healthy baby

* Tina Anselmi

 born 1927

..... FIRST woman Cabinet Minister in Italy as Minister of Labour (1976-78) and then Minister of Health (1978-79). At the age of 16 she worked in the Resistance movement and received the Military Cross for valour. When she became a politician part of her work was on the status of women and in 1966 she became Vice-President of the European Feminist Union

* Tina Crimp

..... on 17th May 1997 she became the FIRST woman and FIRST American to grace the playing fields of Penarth Cricket Club in Wales

* Tina Thomas

..... FIRST woman to take on a Novus franchise for a mobile windscreen repair service - 1988

* Tituba

..... an Indian woman and servant of the Rev Samuel Parris she became the FIRST person to confess to being an active practitioner of witchcraft - March 1st 1692 - Salem, Massachusetts

* Toni Morrison

 born 1931

neé Chloe Anthony Wofford

..... FIRST black American to receive the Pulitzer Prize, the literary world's most prestigious award, which she was awarded for her book Beloved , the harrowing story of an escaped woman slave in mid-1800s America

* Tonya Harding

..... FIRST American woman to do the triple-axle in ice skating championships in 1991

* Tori Murden

..... in 1989 she became the FIRST woman and FIRST American to ski to the South Pole and in 1998 set out from North Carolina in an attempt to become the FIRST woman to row solo across the North Atlantic.  A previous attempt by a woman French woman Peggy Bouchet, ended on May 27th 1998 when her boat capsized and she almost drowned

* Tosca Canestrelli

born March 4th 1923 died 1994

..... America's leading star on the bouncing rope ( an elasticated cord rather than a high wire) and  FIRST woman to perform a double somersault in such an act. Her family was one of Italy's most famous and talented circus families and their restaurant Casa Canestrelli in Sarasota Florida was the FIRST dinner-theatre there. Benefit dinners and performances there bought the town's FIRST iron lung machine when polio epidemics were common

* Toujan al-Faisal

..... in 1993 she became the FIRST woman to be elected to Parliament in Jordan

* Tracy Austin

..... with her brother John they were the FIRST brother and sister to win the mixed doubles at Wimbledon     ( from Sunil Hiranandani)

* Tracy Caulkins

..... FIRST woman to break the 2 minutes in the 200 yards individual medley

* Tracey Edwards

born 1962

..... skipper of the FIRST all-female crew to complete the Whitbread Round-the-World Race and the FIRST all-female crew to attempt to break the transatlantic speed sailing record in 1997 but the attempt was abandoned  through poor sailing conditions. In 1990 she was named Yachtsman of the Year, the FIRST woman winner since it was inaugurated in 1955 by Sir Max Aitken

* Tracey Hanley

..... in 1988 she was the FIRST bell girl in Britain when employed by the Grand Hotel in Brighton

* Traill - Lady

..... FIRST Lady Mayoress to set a new style by riding on horseback in the Lord Mayor's Show procession. The practice itself dates back 602 years when Richard 11 paraded his wife to show her to the people. Lord Mayors used to ride in the procession but the practice ceased after 1710 when Sir Gilbert Heathcote was thrown from his horse. Lady Traill's husband, Alderman Alan Traill, succeeded  Mary Donaldson, the FIRST woman Lord Mayor of London

* Trehawke Davies

..... FIRST woman to loop-the-loop at Hendon - September 1913

* Trinidad Tescon

 born 1848 died 1928

..... FIRST woman to start Red Cross work in the Philippines. when she organised women to nurse the sick and the injured during the Philippine revolution. Afterwards her work was recognised by the International Red Cross

* Trisha Yearwood

..... her debut album was the FIRST inaugural album by a female country artiste to reach platinum. In 1997 she became Country Music's Queen by winning the 'triple-crown' - the Grammy, CMA and ACM Awards for Female Vocalist of the year