* 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.

** Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.

** Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint.

* January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor ( Wyoming ) in the United States.

Nellie Davis Tayloe was born near Amazonia, in Andrew County, Missouri ( now part of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area ) to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.

Nellie Tayloe Ross refused to campaign, but easily won the race on November 4, 1924.

In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman elected as a governor in the United States, for the state of Wyoming.

On April 21, 1938, Schlag's design for the Jefferson nickel was selected by Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the United States Mint.

Just two weeks before her inauguration, Nellie Tayloe Ross had been sworn in as governor of Wyoming to finish the expired term of her late husband.

In 1884, when Nellie Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.

The Democratic Party then nominated Nellie Ross to run for governor in a special election the following month.

although the water rights were sold to the state of South Dakota by governor Nellie Ross.

In 1907 he married Nellie Louise Ross and in 1928 he married Emily Emely Hartridge.

* Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances

* November 22-Don Morin becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nellie Cournoyea

On November 21, 1928, the state highway commission, who at that time operated Oregon's state parks, received as a gift from Nellie and O. W. Taylor to use for a park.

In November 2005, Intuit acquired MyCorporation. com, an online business document filing service, for $ 20 million from original founders Philip and Nellie Akalp.

* July 29 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast

Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish ( 1876 – 1956 ), who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy, and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years.

* 1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player ( b. 1927 )

* 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

* 1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer ( d. 1922 )

* 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly ( aka Elizabeth Cochrane ) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.

* 1912 – Nellie Lutcher, American pianist, R & B and jazz singer ( d. 2007 )

* February 23 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano ( b. 1861 )

* January 4 – Nellie Cashman, Irish-born prospector ( b. 1845 )

Nellie married Tribune reporter Robert Wilson Patterson, Jr. ( 1850 – 1910 ).

Harold Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan ( 1853 – 1936 ), publisher, and Helen ( Nellie ) Artie Tarleton Belles ( 1856 – 1937 ), artist and socialite, from Spencer, Indiana in the United States.

Nellallitea ' Nella ' Larsen ( born Nellie Walker ( April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964 ), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.

* Edwin Way Teale ( 1899 – 1980 ), American naturalist and author, lived on a farm in rural Hampton with his wife Nellie from 1959 until his death in 1980.

Nellie Melba ( 1861 – 1931 ) travelled to Europe in 1886 to commence her international career as an opera singer.

* Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (" Nellie Bly ") ( 1864 – 1922 ), American pioneer female journalist.

.... Nellie Ruth ' Nell ' Harper ( 137 episodes, 1981 – 1987 )

Nellie Bly ( May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922 ) was the pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane.

* Nellie Cornish ( 1914 – 1939 )

* Nellie Campobello ( 1900 – 1986 ), Mexican writer, ballet dancer and choreographer

* Preakness Stakes – Nellie Morse

The Metropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Marcello, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.

The US premiere followed a month after Covent Garden's at the Grand Opera House in New York on 15 June, while the Metropolitan Opera first staged the work on 11 December of the same year ( along with Orfeo ed Euridice ), the Nedda being sung by Nellie Melba.

Other famous Mackem musicians include punk rockers The Toy Dolls, who broke the top five of the charts with " Nellie the Elephant " in December 1984 ; the punk rock band Leatherface ; the lead singer of dance outfit Olive, Ruth Ann Boyle, who achieved a UK chart-topper with " You're Not Alone " in May 1997, and has gone on to work with fellow chart-toppers Enigma ; A Tribe of Toffs made number 21 with their cult hit " John Kettley is a Weatherman " in December 1988.

Hancock married Nellie Stein on December 21, 1887.

Gilbert's Robert the Devil ( a burlesque of the opera Robert le Diable ) had been on the programme on the theatre's opening night on 21 December 1868, with Nellie Farren in the title role, and played successfully for over 100 nights.

Wanda Jackson was born to Tom Robert Jackson and Nellie Vera Jackson ( December 19, 1913-January 14, 2011 ) in Maud, Oklahoma in 1937, but has lived much of her life in Oklahoma City.