Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
stolen from Patty's blog.
October Highlights in US Women's History
· Oct 3, 1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for black students in Daytona Beach, FL
· Oct 23, 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight
· Oct 16, 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.'s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY
· Oct 15, 1948 - Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy
· Oct 24, 1956 - Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church
· Oct 28, 1958 - Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange)
· Oct 4, 1976 - Barbara Walters becomes first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC)
· Oct 10, 1983 - Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics of mobile genetic elements
· Oct 11, 1984 - Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to "walk" in space during Challenger flight
· Oct 4, 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman
· Oct 8, 1993 - Toni Morrison becomes the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
October Birthdays
· Oct 6, 1917 (1977) - Fannie Lou Hamer , voting rights crusader; helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964
· Oct 11, 1884 (1962) - Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights advocate; feminist; author; world diplomat; former First Lady (1933-1945)
· Oct 13, c.1754 (1832) - Mary Hays McCauley, "Molly Pitcher" of Battle of Monmouth, 1778; legendary water-carrying heroine of the American Revolution
· Oct 17, 1943 - Vilma Socorro Martinez, lawyer; first female U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (2009); civil rights crusader; one of first women on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
· Oct 18, 1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis champion; nine-time Wimbledon singles winner
· Oct 23, 1906 (2003) - Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel, 1926
· Oct 24, 1830 (1917) - Belva Lockwood, first woman admitted to practice law before Supreme Court, 1879; ran for office of US President 1884 and 1888
· Oct 26, 1911 (1972) - Mahalia Jackson, considered world's greatest gospel singer, sang at Martin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington
· Oct 27, 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston , award-winning author of The Woman Warrior, an autobiography about the Chinese-American female experience
· Oct 31, 1860 (1927) - Juliette Low, founder and first president of Girl Scouts of the USA
Can't wait to see everyone and get this year started! it's going to be a great one.
-Lucy
· Oct 3, 1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for black students in Daytona Beach, FL
· Oct 23, 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight
· Oct 16, 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.'s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY
· Oct 15, 1948 - Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy
· Oct 24, 1956 - Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church
· Oct 28, 1958 - Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange)
· Oct 4, 1976 - Barbara Walters becomes first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC)
· Oct 10, 1983 - Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics of mobile genetic elements
· Oct 11, 1984 - Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to "walk" in space during Challenger flight
· Oct 4, 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman
· Oct 8, 1993 - Toni Morrison becomes the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
October Birthdays
· Oct 6, 1917 (1977) - Fannie Lou Hamer , voting rights crusader; helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964
· Oct 11, 1884 (1962) - Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights advocate; feminist; author; world diplomat; former First Lady (1933-1945)
· Oct 13, c.1754 (1832) - Mary Hays McCauley, "Molly Pitcher" of Battle of Monmouth, 1778; legendary water-carrying heroine of the American Revolution
· Oct 17, 1943 - Vilma Socorro Martinez, lawyer; first female U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (2009); civil rights crusader; one of first women on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
· Oct 18, 1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis champion; nine-time Wimbledon singles winner
· Oct 23, 1906 (2003) - Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel, 1926
· Oct 24, 1830 (1917) - Belva Lockwood, first woman admitted to practice law before Supreme Court, 1879; ran for office of US President 1884 and 1888
· Oct 26, 1911 (1972) - Mahalia Jackson, considered world's greatest gospel singer, sang at Martin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington
· Oct 27, 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston , award-winning author of The Woman Warrior, an autobiography about the Chinese-American female experience
· Oct 31, 1860 (1927) - Juliette Low, founder and first president of Girl Scouts of the USA
Can't wait to see everyone and get this year started! it's going to be a great one.
-Lucy
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