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1890 --- 1st woman elected to full membership in the American Institute of Architects.
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1892 --- 1st (and only) US President to win election to nonconsecutive terms. He defeated Benjamin Harrison.
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1896 --- winner of the 1st women's bicycling marathon, which took place on January 6-11, 1896 at Madison Square Garden in New York. She traveled 418 miles.
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Thanks for correcting the sequence.
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