Revisit Senator Dianne Feinstein's top accomplishments following the trailblazer's death
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Senator Dianne Feinstein died on Friday at the age of 90. Not only was Feinstein the longest-serving woman senator in history, she was the first woman to serve as a U.S. senator for the state of California. Over her long career, she broke the glass ceiling time and time again. Here is a look back at some of her historic firsts.
In 1969, Feinstein became the first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She then became the first woman mayor of her hometown in 1978 after Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected official, were assassinated.
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment captured by an Army photographer became the most enduring image of America's greatest military operation.