Portal:Puerto Rico/Did you know entries/8

Biographical topics


 * ... that Félix Rigau Carrera was the first Puerto Rican pilot and the first pilot to fly on air mail carrying duties in Puerto Rico?
 * ... that Melliangee Pérez was awarded the Soprano of the Year award by UNESCO?
 * ... that Irem Poventud was the first Puerto Rican to perform in the San Francisco Opera House?
 * ... that Margarita Castro Alberty was the recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation, Baltimore Opera Guild, Chicago Opera Guide and Metropolitan Opera Guild awards?
 * ... that in 1909, Elisa Rivera Díaz and Ana Janer became the first Puerto Rican female doctors?
 * ... that in 1919, Luisa Capetillo was the first woman to publicly wear pants in Puerto Rico and that she was sent to jail for it?
 * ... that the Father of Black History in the United States was Arturo Schomburg who was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1874?
 * ... that Blanca Canales may possibly have been the first woman to have led a revolt against the United States when she led the Jayuya Uprising?
 * ... that Marie Teresa Ríos, the mother of Medal of Honor recipient Humbert Roque Versace, was the author of the book The Fifteen Pelicans and that popular 1960s television sitcom The Flying Nun was based on her book?
 * ... that Sylvia Méndez at age eight played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement?