On August 6th, 1926, two years after winning gold at the Summer Olympics in Paris, 20-year-old New Yorker Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Get there or die; this day or never.
On August 6th, 1926, two years after winning gold at the Summer Olympics in Paris, 20-year-old New Yorker Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.