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Charlotte Cooper (tennis)
1870Sep, 22

Charlotte Cooper (tennis)

Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (d. 1966)
Charlotte "Chattie" Cooper Sterry (née Charlotte Reinagle Cooper; 22 September 1870 – 10 October 1966) was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. In winning in Paris on 11 July 1900, she became the first female Olympic tennis champion as well as the first individual female Olympic champion.

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Events on 1870

  • 15Jan

    Thomas Nast

    A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • 30Mar

    Reconstruction Era

    Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
  • 12May

    Royal Assent

    The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
  • 18Jul

    Papal infallibility

    The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
  • 19Sep

    Siege of Paris (1870-71)

    Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.