* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

( November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929 ) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.

The world's first long distance road trip by automobile took place in Germany in August 1888 when Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, the inventor of the first patented motor car ( the Benz Patent-Motorwagen ), travelled from Mannheim to Pforzheim ( a distance of ) in the third experimental Benz motor car ( which had a maximum speed of ) and back, with her two teenage sons Richard and Eugen but without the consent and knowledge of her husband.

Two interesting facts in transportation history are that both Karl Drais, the inventor of the bicycle, as well as Carl Benz, the inventor of the car were born in Karlsruhe and that Benz also studied at the city ’ s university ; and that Benz ’ s wife Bertha took the world's first long distance-drive with a car from Mannheim to Karlsruhe-Grötzingen and Pforzheim ( see Bertha Benz Memorial Route ).

Benz was granted a patent for his automobile on 29 January 1886, and began the first production of automobiles in 1888, after Bertha Benz, his wife, had proved with the first long-distance trip in August 1888 ( from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back ) that the horseless coach was absolutely suitable for daily use.

Since 2008 a Bertha Benz Memorial Route commemorates this event.

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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 of 1888, used by Bertha Benz for the highly publicized first long distance road trip by automobile ( of over 106 km / 60 miles )

As an unmarried woman she was able to do so ; after she married Benz, according to the law in those days, Bertha lost her juridical power to act.

Bertha Ringer was born in 1849 in Pforzheim, Germany.

* Bertha Palmer ( 1849 – 1918 ), American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist

Bertha Palmer ( May 22, 1849 – May 5, 1918 ) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist.

Angilbert's non-sacramental relationship with Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne, was evidently recognized by the court – if she had not been the daughter of the King, historians might refer to her as his concubine.

* 1961 – Bertha Faye, American wrestler ( d. 2001 )

In the 20th century the company was headed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ( 1870 – 1950 ), who assumed the surname of Krupp when he married the Krupp heiress, Bertha Krupp.

Fritz married Magda, and they had two daughters: Bertha ( 1886 – 1957 ) and Barbara ( 1887 – 1972 ).

Helene Bertha Amalie " Leni " Riefenstahl (; August 22, 1902 – September 8, 2003 ) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker.

* 1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

* 1930 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete ( d. 2006 )

* 1868 – Bertha Landes, American politician ( d. 1943 )

* 1051 – Bertha of Savoy ( d. 1087 )

* 1923 – Bertha Wilson, Canadian jurist ( d. 2007 )

One of the most influential architects of the mid-20th century, Louis Isadore Kahn ( 1901 – 1974 ), was born on Saaremaa to Leopold and Bertha Kahn.

* July 12 – Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $ 270 million in damage to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.

* June 9 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1914 )

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner ( Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin ( Countess ) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau ; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914 ) was an Austrian novelist, radical ( organizational ) pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

* Bertha Harmer ( 1880 – 1934 ), prominent Canadian / American nurse

At the age of 19 he married Hilda Amelia Bredt ( 1858 – 1964 ), the 17-year-old daughter of prominent feminist and socialist Bertha Bredt.

* Bertha and Evelyn Gotobed – former servants of Miss Dawson

* Bertha ( c. 830 – 852 ) Married to an unknown man, but later Abbess of Avenay.

* Bertha ( 863 – 925 ), married Theobald of Arles, brother of Theutberga, and then Adalbert II of Tuscany

In 1944, on her ninety-fifth birthday, Bertha Benz was honoured with the title Honourable Senator, by the Technical University of Karlsruhe.

The title cards for the team-up shorts read " Featuring Herman and Henry "; the first such short was Henpecked Rooster ( 1944 ), and the last Sudden Fried Chicken ( 1946 ), in which Bertha beats the rooster hard enough to hospitalize him.

Shimson's second wife Batia Bertha Husz, also average height, produced the following children: Avram ( 1903 – 1972 ) ( dwarf ), Freida ( 1905 – 1975 ) ( dwarf ), Sarah ( 1907 – 1993 ) ( average height ), Micki ( 1909 – 1972 ) ( dwarf ), Leah ( 1911-1987 ) ( average height ), Elizabeth ( 1914 – 1992 ) ( dwarf ), Arie ( 1917 – 1944 ) ( average height ), and Piroska ( 1921 – 2001 ), also known as Pearla ( dwarf ).

His wife Bertha ( not to be confused with their granddaughter ), was unwilling to remain in polluted Essen in Villa Hügel, the ungainly but fireproof castle which Krupp designed.

Austrian writer Bertha Diener, also known as Helen Diner, wrote Mothers and Amazons ( 1930 ), which was the first work to focus on women's cultural history.

* Bertha S. Philpotts, ' Wyrd and Providence in Anglo-Saxon Thought ', Essays and Studies 13 ( 1928 ), 7-27.

She was orphaned as an infant of three months, when her parents, schoolteachers Walter and Bertha Shirley ( née Willis ), died of typhoid fever.

Anne and Gilbert have seven children: Joyce ( or " Joy ") ( who dies very soon after her birth ), James Matthew (" Jem "), Walter Cuthbert, Diana (" Di "), Diana's twin Anne (" Nan "), Shirley ( the youngest son ), and Bertha Marilla (" Rilla ").

Three daughters followed-Emily ( born 1853 ), Bertha ( born 1855 ) and Gertrude ( born 1857 ), before their last child, a son ( Henry John ), was born in 1860.

Berry Gordy, Jr. ( born in Detroit, Michigan ) was the seventh of eight children ( Fuller, Esther, Anna, Loucye, George, Gwen, Berry and Robert ), born to the middle-class family of Berry Gordy II ( a. k. a. Berry Gordy, Sr .) and Bertha Fuller Gordy ( 1899 – 1975 ), who had relocated to Detroit from Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1922.

( 795-844 ), a Frankish historian, was the grandson of Charlemagne, by Bertha, a daughter of the emperor.

Her personal secretary, Bertha Berner ( who was the only other person present who had also been at the scene of the previous incident ), prepared the solution, which Stanford drank.

However, the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the majority of them ( 7 out of 9 ) appointed by Trudeau ( Bora Laskin, Robert Dickson, Jean Beetz, Willard Estey, William McIntyre, Bertha Wilson, Antonio Lamer ), ruled in the Patriation Reference and the Quebec Veto Reference that neither Quebec nor any other province had a veto to prevent the federal government from petitioning the British Parliament to pass the Canada Act 1982, and that the new constitution applied to all provinces notwithstanding their disagreement.

Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Bertha Mae ( née Burnside ), a homemaker, and Paul Hamilton Williams, an architectural engineer.

The two appeared together in a few films, including The Good Guys and the Bad Guys ( 1969 ) and Boxcar Bertha ( 1972 ), which was produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese.

# Alix of Montferrat ( 1210 / 1215 – Kyrenia, December, 1232-May, 1233, buried at Santa Sophia, Nicosia ), daughter of Marquis William VI of Montferrat, by Bertha da Clavesana, married at Limassol in May, 1229, without issue

* Bertha von Suttner ( 1843 – 1914 ), née Countess Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, pacifist