India's first women president sworn

Pratibha Devisingh Patil is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007. She retired from the office in July 2012.

 

First woman to perform a space walk

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a former Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She served two duty tours on the Salyut 7 space station, and on her second one became the first woman to perform a space walk on July 25, 1984.