Famous Female Firsts

Can you answer these questions about famous female firsts?
Via Wikipedia and the Guinness Book of World Records
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Who was the first woman to...
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2013
Be inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame?
Mia Hamm
2010
Win an Academy Award for Best Director?
Kathryn Bigelow
2007
Serve as US Speaker of the House?
Nancy Pelosi
2005
Serve as Chancellor of Germany?
Angela Merkel
1995
Debut a song at #1 on the Billboard Top 100?
Mariah Carey
1993
Serve as Prime Minister of Canada?
Kim Campbell
1987
Be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
Aretha Franklin
1975
Climb Mt. Everest?
Junko Tabei
1972
Be named CEO of a Fortune 500 company?
Kathrine Graham
1968
Win the Wimbledon Open?
Billie Jean King
1963
Launch into Space?
Valentina Tereshkova
1928
Fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
1921
Win the Pulitzer Prize for Best Fiction?
Edith Wharton
1903
Win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
1900
Win an Olympic Gold Medal?
Charlotte "Chatty" Cooper
1842
Work with computers?
Ada Lovelace
1725
Rule Imperial Russia?
Catherine I
1650
Publish a book in the Americas?
Anne Bradstreet
1618
Compose an opera?
Francesca Caccini
1553
Rule England?
Mary I
1047
Be canonized by the Vatican?
Wiborada of Saint Gall
1472 BC
Rule Egypt?
Hatshepsut
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