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Women who broke barriers in electoral politics, the courts and science, with the real dates.
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Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, decades before women could vote. Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith and Shirley Chisholm followed; nothing of the kind happened in 1967.
Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed in 1981, not 1967. The 1967 appointment was Thurgood Marshall, and here is how the Supreme Court looked that year.
Marie Curie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after her 1903 Physics prize; Dorothy Hodgkin won in 1964. 1967's science news was the pulsar discovery.
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