📅 On This Day: September 22

September 22, 1939: Junko Tabei, first woman on Everest. On 22 September 1939, Junko Tabei was born in Miharu, Fukushima, Japan. On 16 May 1975, she became the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Later she also became the first woman to climb the highest peak on all seven continents.

🎂 Junko Tabei, first woman on Everest (1939)

Where: Miharu, Fukushima

Nearby on the globe: Nikkō Tōshō-gū → 🌍 Open the 3D globe

✨ More events on this day

1741 🌿 Naturalist Peter Simon Pallas was born in 1741; he explored Russia and Siberia, and the fluffy wild cat called Pallas's cat is named after him.
1910 🎨 The Duke of York's Picture House opened in Brighton in 1910, and it is now the oldest cinema in Britain that has been showing films ever since.
1953 💡 The Four Level Interchange opened in Los Angeles in 1953, the world's first stack interchange, where highways cross over each other on four levels.