A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O PQ R S T U V W XYZ
" Doesn't it feel like you live on the Planet of the Guys"
Kate Clinton
Her name is Kate
* Kate Adie
..... FIRST woman to report on television to the accompaniment of bullets. A veteran of riot and disorder in Northern Ireland, flood and famine in India and Bangladesh, the American bombing of Libya, the Kuwait hijacking and the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, she has won three major national and international awards for her work and has made the headlines as well as reported them. Her first big event was her live reporting of the end of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980, winning her the Royal Television Society's Reporter of the Year award and she was also one of the major reporters on the Tiananmen Square disaster. In 1989 she was awarded the Freedom of Sutherland, her home town
* Kate Barker
..... on 12th February 1994 she became the FIRST woman to be appointed to a senior role at the Confederation of British Industry when made Chief Economic Adviser
* Kate Barton
..... FIRST woman bus conductress in Britain in 1909. She worked on the Long Eaton, Nottingham route and her two sisters, Ruth and Edith, joined the firm. When on duty they wore long green coats and Kate wore a male conductors peaked cap. Her sisters preferred to go bare-headed as they were proud of their long hair. In 1918 Kate married and left the buses and her sisters left shortly afterwards. In 1916 London recruited the first conductresses as a wartime measure to enable more men to be released for the services
* Kate Dickens
..... wife of Charles Dickens, she was the FIRST woman to give birth with the help of chloroform
* Kate Edger
..... FIRST woman graduate of the University of New Zealand - July 11th 1877 - when she graduated in mathematics. This was made possible by the efforts of Learmonth White Dalrymple (1827-1906) who had fought for university education for women in New Zealand and during the discussion of the founding of the New Zealand University she had launched a petition for the admission of women. By 1893 over half the students in universities in New Zealand were women. Learmonth was also a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and an active suffrage worker who travelled abroad to meet other feminists during the franchise campaign
* Kate and Margarette Fox
..... FIRST professional mediums giving both public and private séances. On the night of 31st March 1848 it is claimed that the two sisters made the FIRST direct communication with the spirit world. They were aged 14 and 11 years respectively at the time and male contact with the spirit of a pedlar who had allegedly been murdered in the house some five years previously and whose body was said to be buried beneath the floor of the cellar. The day afterwards the family dug up the cellar and found fragments of bone and human hair but the remainder of the skeleton was not discovered until 56 years later. In 1850 they were placed under contract by the American showman, Phineas T Barnum and continued in this career for 30 years during which time they became incurable alcoholics
* Kate Gleason
died 1933
..... FIRST woman member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers - Rochester, U.S.A
* Kate Glover
..... FIRST woman to be granted full membership of the National Society of Master Thatchers, the craft's oldest national body, and ending 25 years of all-male membership
* Kate Heightman
..... FIRST woman ranger for Exmoor National Park in 1996
* Kate Lawler
..... winner of the television fly-on-the-wall show Big Brother and the FIRST woman to win when she was announced the winner in the third series of the show in July 2002
* Kate Marsden
born 1859 died 1931
..... one of the FIRST women elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892
* Kate Campbell Hurt Mead
born 1867 died 1941
..... FIRST comprehensive chronicle of women in medicine was written by her for which she spent the most part of her life collecting information in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia. A pioneer medical historian, she also established the Baltimore Dispensary for working women and girls and became a specialist in the diseases of women and children. She also helped to establish a nurse's organisation and the Medical Women's International Association. Her chronicle was published in 1933 - Medical Women of America and a History of Women in Medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th Century
* Kate Mentick
..... FIRST British MP on the island of Majorca when she became Councillor for Tourism and Residence ( not sure if Mentick is spelt correctly)
* Kate Mulcahey
..... American who was the FIRST woman to be arrested and jailed in New York under a new city law banning women smoking in public - January 22nd 1908
* Kate Mulgrew
..... FIRST woman captain of the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek television series as Captain Kathryn Janeway. Originally the part was going to be filled by Genevieve Bujold but she quit after two days into production. The new series was called Voyager
* Kate Saunders
..... Englishwoman who was the FIRST woman air crew member to eject from an RAF jet in September 1991. The Harrier in which she was a passenger crashed in a field close to Great Driffield, North Humberside. She was a member of the Cambridge University Air Squadron and landed amid the burning wreckage and received serious burns and a fractured leg
* Kate Malcolm Sheppard
died 13th July 1934
..... spearheaded the campaign that resulted in New Zealand becoming the FIRST country to grant women the vote. It took her and her fellow activists seven years to get the bill before parliament but on September 19th 1893 the bill was tabled. It contained 27,000 signatures