Who was the first woman to receive - alone - a ticker tape parade in New York City?

An estimated two million people turned up on August 27, 1926 to celebrate Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. It was a good year for Women on the Canyon of Heroes, as on September 10, 1926 Amelia Gade Corson also received a ticker tape parade as the 2nd woman to swim the Channel and the first mother. Queen Marie of Romania, a glamorous and extraordinary international celebrity of the age was going across the US in her private train and received a ticker tape parade on October 18, 1926.

Gertrude Ederle was born in Manhattan on October 23, 1905 the daughter of an Amsterdam Ave butcher (her parents were German immigrants). After five men had previously swam the Channel, she beat them all with a record time of 14 hrs 34 mins, a record that stood until 1950.

It was not her first time on Broadway. She had also been the recipient of another ticker tape parade, on Aug 6, 1924 as a gold medalist member of the US Olympic Team who won 99 Medals at the Paris Olympics.

She was completely deaf from 1940; she never married and died in New Jersey in 2003 at the age of 98.