{"id":131564,"date":"2023-03-24T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T07:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=131564"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T07:10:49","slug":"google-doodle-celebrates-77th-birth-anniversary-of-late-kitty-oneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/google-doodle-celebrates-77th-birth-anniversary-of-late-kitty-oneil\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Doodle celebrates 77th birth anniversary of late Kitty O\u2019Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>77th birth anniversary of late Kitty O\u2019Neil:<\/strong> Kitty O&#8217;Neil, a famous American stuntwoman and actress who was deaf from a young age, was honoured by Google with a doodle depicting her in a yellow jumpsuit on her 77th birthday anniversary. She went on to become one of Hollywood\u2019s most famous stunt drivers. Google celebrated Kitty O\u2019Neil\u2019s 77th birth anniversary with a doodle that depicted her in a yellow jumpsuit. Despite being deaf since childhood, she rose to prominence in Hollywood as a stunt driver and held the women&#8217;s absolute land speed record until 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-march-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Kitty O\u2019Neil:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kitty O&#8217;Neil was a stuntwoman and actor from Texas who was born in 1946. She became deaf at a young age due to contracting multiple diseases. Despite this, she went on to become one of Hollywood&#8217;s most well-known stunt drivers and performers, serving as a stunt double in a number of films and television shows.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1976, O&#8217;Neil set the women&#8217;s absolute land speed record while driving a three-wheeled hydrogen peroxide rocket car at an average speed of 825.127 kmph and a top speed of 999 kmph. This earned her the title of the \u201cfastest woman in the world.\u201d She also set a women\u2019s high-fall record of 127 feet (39 m) while performing as a stunt double in the 1979 episode of the Wonder Woman TV series, which she would later break.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>O&#8217;Neil died of pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 72. In 2019, she received the Oscars in Memoriam award. A biopic about her life, called Silent Victory: The Kitty O\u2019Neil Story, was released in 1979 and showcased her land speed record achievement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A biopic named Silent Victory:<\/strong> The Kitty O\u2019Neil Story, was released in 1979, and she received the Oscars in Memoriam award in 2019. She died of pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 72.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>77th birth anniversary of late Kitty O\u2019Neil: Kitty O&#8217;Neil, a famous American stuntwoman and actress who was deaf from a young age, was honoured by Google with a doodle depicting her in a yellow jumpsuit on her 77th birthday anniversary. She went on to become one of Hollywood\u2019s most famous stunt drivers. Google celebrated Kitty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":131565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5004],"tags":[4916,4919],"class_list":["post-131564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2023","tag-national-current-affairs","tag-persons-in-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131566,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131564\/revisions\/131566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}