Women’s History of the month: November
The U.S. Women’s Trade Union League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth established. York City to attend the funeral seven Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New of York. November 1903 of the Triangle unidentified victims focusing on14, healthcare and education in the October 16, 1916 Shirtwaist Company fire in late March. Israel and the U.S. April 5, 1911 February 24, 1912
The Utah Territorial Legislature passes a American Revolution heroine Sybil FirstSeneca medical school for women, the Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Falls Convention, the bill allowing to vote. Ludington, 16women years old, rides 40 opens. milesinon England Medical School, school forFemale African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, horseback in middle of the night to November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the American militia that the British October 1904 Movement. Women’s3, Rights Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, were invading. Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around world 72 days, became 6 hours, July 19-20,the 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, 1777 the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and the 14 seconds, beating the Suffragists crash Celebration woman pilot to makeCentennial a public flight. Peace. fictional record set bytoPhineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and in Independence Hall present the Vice October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. President with1870 the of theDays. Rights November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805
July 4, Quimby 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet fly airplane across the English Channel. 16 an women from the National Women’s Party
were arrested April 16, 1912while picketing the White Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is July 2, 1937 beatified, the first American woman U.S. Supreme Court aupholds 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the19th citizen to become saint. the Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment to1938 the second woman to Constitution, play baseball in November 13, woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the all-male minor leagues, Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition game against the N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a center for October 24,and 1956 Yankees strikes out both Babe February 27, 1922 African-American women’s history, Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11,a 1979 discovery of pulsar, a rapidly (at ABC).women rotating neutroninstar. Fifteen the House of October 4, 19761967 Representatives form the signs the February President24, Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. discrimination in employment. April 19, 1977 July 2, 1964
The Suffrage Monument, depicting House demanding universal women’sSusan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffrage; they charged with TheFrances state ofL.were Washington passes aandwoman Dr. Willoughby is the obstructing first Lucretia sculpted byNavy. Adelaide traffic. constitutional amendment to guarantee doctor inMott, the regular U.S. Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol. woman15, suffrage. October 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, November 8,1921 1910
The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. July 20,Bryan 1942 Owen is the first woman to Ruth
represent the U.S. as a foreign minister Althea Gibson is the first African American when she is appointed as envoy to woman player to win a Wimbledon title in Denmark. women’s tennis singles. April 13, 1933 Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 of a stock exchange Stock Marian Anderson sings Easter American woman to (American winan the World Figure Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the Exchange). concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship. Women’s International Leagueatfor Peace “Philadelphia Eleven” deacons (Merrill October 28, 1958 Memorial. February 15, and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla1953 Bozarth-Campbell, Alison April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Prize. Cheek, November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Marie Opening ofHiatt, the National Museum ofU.S. woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle during flight. Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig)women ordained as the first Challenger museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American mother 13 October 11, 1984Episcopal priests. the artists. February 1, 1978 and first thirdwomen American woman to fly into space. April 7, 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984
