July 25: In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are the milestones:
From WEIRED

https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/
news/2008/07/dayintech_0725

By Tony Long

# 1865, "James Barry," the first woman physician in modern times, compelled to disguise herself as a man in order to practice her profession, dies.

# 1920, Rosalind Franklin, the unheralded co-discoverer of DNA, is born.

# 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, is born.

# 984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space.

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