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Women’s History of the Month
Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth The U.S. Women’s Trade Union League is Jewish organization in American history, York City to attend the funeral of seven control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. established. focusing on healthcare and education in the unidentified victims of the Triangle October 16, 1916 November 14, 1903 Israel and the U.S. Shirtwaist Company fire in late March.
February 24, 1912 April 5, 1911
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 upholds the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the citizen to become a saint. Amendment to the Constitution, second woman to play baseball in Reverend Margaret Towner is the first November 13, 1938 which guarantees women the right the all-male minor leagues, pitches woman ordained a minister in the to vote.an exhibition game against the N.Y. Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens February 27, 1922Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. October 24, 1956 in Washington D.C. as a center for African-American women’s history,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first Barbara Walters becomes the first honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11, 1979 rotating neutron star. Fifteen women in the House of (at ABC). February 24, 1967 Representatives form the President Lyndon Johnson signs theOctober 4, 1976
Congressional Caucus for Women’s Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex
Issues. discrimination in employment.
April 19, 1977
July 2, 1964
The Utah Territorial Legislature passes a American Revolution heroine Sybil The Seneca Falls Convention, the Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first First medical school for women, the New bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles on country’s first women’s rights convention, school for African-American students in England Female Medical School, opens.
February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the night to is held in Seneca Falls, New York Daytona Beach, Florida. November 1, 1848 warn the American militia that the British Women’s Rights Movement. October 3, 1904 Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, were invading. Esther Hobart Morris in Wyoming became the first American woman Justice of the April 26, 1777 July 19-20, 1848 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight. sails around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the Peace. February 17, 1870 Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter. in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the “Declaration of the Rights October 23, 1910 fictional record set by Phineas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. April 7, 1805 of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage. November 14, 1889
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to July 4, 1876
fly an airplane across the English Channel. 16 women from the National Women’s Party
April 16, 1912 were arrested while picketing the White The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. House demanding universal women’s Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and suffrage; they were charged with obstructing Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman The state of Washington passes a Lucretia Mott, sculpted by Adelaidetraffic.doctor in the regular U.S. Navy. constitutional amendment to guarantee Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol.July 14, 1917 October 15, 1948 woman suffrage.
February 15, 1921 November 8, 1910
The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army
Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA.
Ruth Bryan Owen is the first woman to July 20, 1942
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. Tenley Albright became the first April 13, 1933 July 6, 1957 Mary Roebling is the first woman director
American woman to win the World Figure Skating championship. Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln “Philadelphia Eleven” deacons (Merrill of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange). Emily Greene Balch, co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace
February 15, 1953 Memorial. Bittner, Alla Bozarth-Campbell, Alison October 28, 1958 and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace
April 9, 1939 Cheek, Emily Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Prize.
First postage stamp to honor a black Opening of the National Museum of Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Moorefield, Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. November 14, 1946 woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC. Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the first museum devoted to women Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained as woman astronaut to “walk” in space during Challenger flight. Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle Discovery, becomes the first American mother February 1, 1978 artists.the first women Episcopal priests. October 11, 1984 and third American woman to fly into space.13
