Timeline of women's sports in the United States Lyle Alberga, was the first of three women to play Negro league baseball, and thus the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team. 1954 - The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played its last season. 1955 - The first LPGA championship was held. 1959 - Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon. 1960 - Mary McGee earns a FIM license and becomes the first official female motorcycle racer in the United States. 1961 - The WIBC Queens all-female
The First Men in the Moon (2010 film) HD. It was made available on BBC iPlayer for a period of 7 days until 26 October 2010. Following the original broadcast BBC Four repeated BBC Two's biographical drama "" starring Michael Sheen as H. G. Wells, the author of "The First Men in the Moon". The title of the film is a reference to Wells' most famous novel "The War of the Worlds". The show received generally positive reviews, with criticisms focusing on the story, pacing, and special effects. "The Guardian"'s Tim Dowling found Gatiss' adaptation to have "brilliant" elements, such as setting the film as the 60-year-old "kinematographic"