New Delhi: Google is celebrating the 77th birthday of legendary American stunt performer, daredevil, and rocket-powered automobile driver Kitty O’Neil in the present day, March 24, 2023. O’Neil who was deaf since childhood is thought for her experiments with high-speed sports activities like water snowboarding and bike racing.
Once topped the “fastest woman in the world,” Kitty O’Neil was born in 1946 to a Cherokee Native American mom and Irish father in Corpus Christi, Texas. When Kitty was only a few months previous, she contracted a number of illnesses which led to an intense fever that finally left her deaf.
But Kitty by no means let the deafness overpower her will to have a standard life and she or he discovered varied communication modes and tailored for various audiences all through her life, finally preferring talking and lip studying largely.
Kitty liked performing harmful stunts like leaping from helicopters and within the ate 70s, she made it onto the large display screen as a stunt double for movies and TV collection together with The Bionic Woman (1976), Wonder Woman (1977-1979), and The Blues Brothers (1980).
O’Neil was topped “the fastest woman alive” after she zoomed throughout the Alvord Desert on a rocket-powered automobile referred to as the Motivator at 512.76 miles per hour pace. After attaining this feat, it was evident that Kitty might probably beat the lads’s mark too, nevertheless, she was by no means given that chance even after a authorized battle.
In 1979, the biopic ‘Silent Victory: The Kitty O’Neil Story’ was launched that recaps the spectacular Alvord Desert feat of the girl that was as soon as the ‘world’s quickest girl’.
