"People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could."
#OTD in 1926.
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
In August 1919 in Indianapolis, she became the youngest woman ever to set a world swimming record when she posted a new best for the 880y freestyle. She set a total of nine world records and seven of them came during the course of a 500m swim at Brighton Beach, New York, in 1922.