Women’s History of the month: October
100,000 to 500,000 people marchfirst in New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s birth York City to attend the funeral of seven Jewish in American history, controlorganization clinic in Brooklyn, New York. unidentified victims ofand the education Triangle in the focusing on 1916 healthcare October 16, Shirtwaist Company fire in late March. Israel and the U.S. April 5, 1911 February 24, 1912
Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. July 2, 1937 U.S. Supreme Jackie Court upholds 17-year-old Mitchell,the the19th Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment to the Constitution, second woman to play baseball in woman ordained women a minister the which guarantees theinright the all-male minor leagues, pitches Presbyterian Church. to vote. an exhibition game against the N.Y. October 24, 1956 February 27, 1922 Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Jocelyn Burnell makesthe thefirst first BarbaraBell Walters becomes discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly April 2,co-anchor 1931 woman of the evening news rotating neutron star. (at ABC).women in the House of Fifteen February 24, 1967 October 4, 1976 Representatives form the signs the President Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. discrimination in employment. April 19, 1977 July 2, 1964
The Utah Territorial Legislature passes American Revolution heroine Sybil Mary McLeod Bethune opens the her first a The Seneca Falls Convention, bill allowing to vote. Ludington, 16women years old, ridesstudents 40 milesinon school forfirst African-American country’s women’s rights convention, horseback in the middle of the night to 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 were invading. Esther Morris in Wyoming became July Hobart 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 1777 theApril first 26, American woman Justice of the Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight. Peace. Sacagawea beginsHall helping the Lewis and in Independence to present the Vice October 23, 1910 February 17, 1870 Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. President with the of the Rights of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage. 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 The Monument, depicting HouseSuffrage demanding universal women’sSusan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and suffrage; they charged with Dr. Frances L.were Willoughby is the obstructing first woman Lucretia Mott, sculpted by Adelaide traffic. doctor in the regular U.S. Navy. Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol. October 15, 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, 1921 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 became the first Tenley Albright Mary Roebling is the first woman director July 6, 1957 American woman to (American win the World Figure of a stock exchange Stock Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday Skating championship. Exchange). concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln “Philadelphia Eleven” deacons (Merrill February 15, October 28,1953 1958 Memorial. Bittner, Alla Bozarth-Campbell, Alison April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Cheek, First postage stamp to honor a black Dr. Kathryn D. National Sullivan is the firstofU.S. Suzanne Marie Moorefield, Opening ofHiatt, the woman, Harriet Tubman,Museum is issued in woman astronaut to “walk” in space Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in theDC. Arts in Washington, D.C., Washington, during Challenger flight. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained as14 the first museum devoted to women February 1, 1978 October 1984Episcopal priests. the first11, women artists. April 7, 1987
