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1 New Year’s Day Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in the US, 1863 2 Elisabeth Domitien becomes Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, 1975
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Hattie Caraway is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, 1932 16
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becomes President of Liberia, 2006
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24 Yuliya Tymoshenko becomes Prime Minister of the Ukraine, 2005
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19 Indira Gandhi becomes India’s first female Prime Minister, 1966
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February 2011 Sunday
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Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir becomes Iceland’s President, 2009
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Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway, 1981
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Agatha Barbara becomes President of Malta, 1982
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Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, 1986
March 2011 Sunday
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Golda Meir is nominated Prime Minister of Israel, 1969
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Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes President of Haiti, 1990 20
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Aboriginal Peoples are given the right to vote in Canada, 1960
Golda Meir becomes Prime Minister of Israel, 1969 St. Patrick’s Day
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World Water Day 27
4 Frances Perkins becomes first Secretary of Labor, first woman in U.S. Cabinet, 1933
Tarja Kaarina Halonen becomes President of Finland, 2000 6
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Portia Simpson-Miller becomes Prime Minister of Jamaica, 2006
April 2011 Sunday
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Roza Otunbayeva becomes President of Kyrgyzstan, 2010 World Health Day 10
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Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes first woman to win Nobel Peace Prize, 1906 Passover begins
Han Myong-Sook becomes Prime Minister of South Korea, 2006
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World YWCA Day
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes President of Nicaraqua, 1990
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May 2011 Sunday
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Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the UK, 1979
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Mother’s Day 15 Edith Cresson becomes PM of France, 1991 International Day of Families 22
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24 Some Canadian women win federal voting right, 1918 Victoria Day (CAN)
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Memorial Day (US)
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June 2011 Sunday
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Mari Kiviniemi becomes Prime Minister of Finland, 2010 29
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Kim Campbell becomes Prime Minister of Canada, 1993 Tansu Ciller becomes PM f T k 1993
July 2011 Sunday
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María Perón becomes President of Argentina, 1974 Canada Day 3
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Dalia Grybauskaite becomes President of Lithuania, 2009
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Jadanka Kosor becomes Prime Minister of Croatia, 2009
Women’s Worlds 2011 ends
Hanna Suchocka becomes Prime Minister of Poland, 1992
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Megawati Sukarnoputri becomes President of Indonesia, 2001 30
August 2011 Sunday
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12 Gwen O’Soup, Canada’s first woman Aboriginal Chief born, 1930 International Youth Day
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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes President of Iceland, 1980 Civic Holiday (CAN) Ramadan begins 7
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September 2011 Sunday
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Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias becomes President of Panama, 1999 4
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October 2011 Sunday
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November 2011 Sunday
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December 2011 Sunday
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Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1988
Mary Robinson becomes President of Ireland, 1990 International Day of Disabled Persons
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Jenny Shipley becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1997
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Christmas Day
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