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 Jewish organization in American history, York City to attend the funeral of seven control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. focusing on healthcare and education in the unidentified victims of the Triangle October 16, 1916 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.

July 2, 1937

U.S. Supreme Court upholds the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the Amendment to the Constitution, second woman to play baseball in Reverend Margaret Towner is the first 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. February 27, 1922 Yankees and strikes out both Babe October 24, 1956

Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news rotating neutron star. Fifteen women in the House of (at ABC). February 24, 1967 Representatives form the President Lyndon Johnson signs the October 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 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

February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the night to is held in Seneca Falls, New York Daytona Beach, Florida. warn the American militia that the British Women’s Rights Movement. October 3, 1904 Esther Hobart Morris in Wyoming became the first American woman Justice of the Peace. February 17, 1870 were invading. April 26, 1777 Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter. July 19-20, 1848 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the “Declaration of the Rights Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight. October 23, 1910 April 7, 1805 of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage.

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 Lucretia Mott, sculpted by Adelaide traffic. doctor in the regular U.S. Navy.

Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol.

February 15, 1921 July 14, 1917 October 15, 1948

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 Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday of a stock exchange (American Stock

February 15, 1953 Skating championship. concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial. “Philadelphia Eleven” deacons (Merrill Bittner, Alla Bozarth-Campbell, Alison Exchange). October 28, 1958

First postage stamp to honor a black woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC. April 9, 1939 Opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Cheek, Emily Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Moorefield, Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to “walk” in space 14 February 1, 1978 the first museum devoted to women artists. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained as the first women Episcopal priests. during Challenger flight. October 11, 1984