VALENTINA TERESHKOVA

 Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retaired soviet cosmonaut engeneer.She was born in 6 March in 1937,she was Russian.

She left school when she was young and worked in a factory of tyre for year and half.She started studing engineering.She also practised Skydiving.

On 16 February 1962,Valentina was selected to participate in the female cosmonat corps among more than four hundred candidate.Only five women were selected were selected.The quelifications required were that they should be parachutists under 30 years of age ,under 170 cm tall and under 70 kg in weight.

On 16th June 1963, at the age of 26 , she was on board of the spaceship Vostok VI took off from the base of baikonun.

That way she became the first women who flew in space. Since that moment people began calling her "Chaika".

Tereshkova`s trip was not pleasent at all.Since she entered into space, she was despertered by a break in her spacesuit.

Valentina suffered strong dizziness and vomiting during her travel.In her return she suffered a facial bruise.

Tereshkova was a part of a study that answers the question of whether women offere the same physical and mental resistence tha men on space.

The heroine kept the mission as a secret beause Russia was in Cold War.

Valentina Tereshkova received a lot of medals and awards between then The Medal of Gold and heroine of  Soviet Union.

Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen (Bursa, 22 March 1913 - Ankara, March 22, 2001) was a military and aviatrix, known for being the first woman aviatrix fighter in the world and the first Turkish woman aviatrix, at the age of 23 years.

According to the official Turkish historiography, she was adopted by Atatürk during a visit from east to Bursa, when he had knowledge of the poor conditions in which she lived.
  Sabiha studied at Ankara and Istanbul. From a young age she was fascinated by the aeronautic.

In 1936 she entered the Air Force Academy, additionally doing a training course in the Soviet Union. During the 28 years she was in the Air Force, she performed 8,000 hours of flight and tested and twenty types of aircraft. After joining the Turkish Air Force in June 1937 she also made her first war service bombing Kurdish rebel positions during the Dersim Rebellion. In 1938 she made a successful air raid by the capitals of the Balkans.

                                                                                                        Yasmin Damun.

Anne Bancroft:
Anne Bancroft was born in New York in 1931 and was died in New York in 2005. Her real name is Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, Anne's moments are Italian.

She was an actres, she started to practised for 4 years, and she studied in an School Art Dramatic. At first she worked in Century Fox company.

Anne Bancroft became a professional actres in USA. She won a someone prizes; One oscar, two Gold Globe and three BAFTA. 

She was married in 1953 and 1964, and in 1972 had a son.

In 2005 she was died because she had a cancer.

ELOISA DIAZ INSUNZA

ELOISA

This wonderful woman was born in Santiago on 25 th June. She was the first woman to study at the University, and the first one that became a doctor in Chile. Diaz graduated on december 27, 1886.
She started working at a hospital on January 1891. Insunza worked as a teacher from 1889 to 1897, and she was named the School Medical Supervisor of Santiago in 1898. Eloisa founded polyclinics for the poor and school camps. In 1910 she participated in Hygiene and Medicine International Scientific Congress in Buenos Aires.
Diaz was named director of a school and she implemented school breakfasts and compaigns to fight alcoholism, rickets and tuberculosis. In 1950 she went to the San Vicente hospital, where she died at the age of 84. I believe that this woman is an example to follow. She didn't waste her time with foolish things, for instance, she just wanted to help the poor and drug addicted.



By Zineb El Haddad

Amelia Earhart

AMELIA EARHART

Amelia Mary Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897, and she disappeared in the Pacific Ocean in 1937. She was an American aviator. She was the first woman aviator who flew solo across the Antlantic Ocean.

Her first instructor was another aviator: Neta Snoock. In her first plane she had some problems but it's normal because the motors were not reliable. Amelia was the 16th woman to receive a pilot licence from the FAI.

After that she started a friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, who wanted to learn how to fly. Amelia had planned to teach her, for which the first lady in USA even got her student permit.

When she flew around the islands Nukumanu she reported that the plan flew towards Howland island. After, she lost connexion with control towers and they never knew where Amelia disappeared.

The United States government spent $4 million looking for Amelia, which made it the most costly and expensive air and sea search in the history until now.

Amy Johnson

By : ines hacini

Amy Johnson

On the 24 of May of 1930 Amy Johnson became the first woman who flew without anyone else from England to Australia. Her nickname is  Lindbergh Girl because Charles Gindbergh was the first man that flew from England to Australia, and Amy was the first woman, so her fans gave her this nickname.

She had many accidents in this flight.The first accident was between Aleppo and Bagdad by a breakdown so she was forced to land in the desert. Between the 8 and 9 of May she broke a part of the wheel. On the 17 of May there were monsoon rains so she was forced to land. On the 24 of May she arrived in Australia with a big smile in her face but very exhausted. She made many flights solos after this one, and she won many prizes,but this was the one and only special to her.

ANNIE LONDONDERRY

Annie Londonderry (1870-1947) was the first woman to travel around the world. She was born in Riga, but she moved to the United States when she was just a child. Altough she grew in a Jewish and very religious family she was a very free-thinking young woman. She got married at the age of 18 and had three children.

In 1894 she was challenged to bicycle around the world in 15 months earning $5,000. So she grabbed her 19 kg bicycle and started cycling.

After the trip, she moved to New York where she wrote stories featuring 'New York World'. She always said: "I am a journalist and a new woman, if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do"