National Women's History Month

Today in Women's History
March 2007

1. 1973 Robyn Smith becomes first female jockey to win a major race - Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct.
2. 1978 Bette Davis becomes the first women to win American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award.
3. 1913: Woman suffrage supporters marched in Washington, D.C., disrupting the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Onlookers attacked while police stand by.
4. 1933: Frances Perkins' appointment as Secretary of Labor announced -- first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. presidential cabinet.
5. 1966: Anna Akhmatova died, Russian poet recognized at her death as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature.
6. 1973: Pulitzer prize winning author and women’s rights activist, Pearl Buck dies at 80.
7. 1938: Janet Guthrie born, first woman ever to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and in the Daytona 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race.
8. 1945: First celebration of International Women's Day.
9. 1976: West Point Military Academy accepts its first female cadet.
10. 1913: Harriet Tubman known for: work with Underground Railroad, Civil War service, and later, her advocacy of woman suffrage, dies.
11. 1953: First woman army doctor is commissioned.
12. 1912: Girl Scouts of America is formed
13. 1906: Susan B. Anthony dies.
14. 1958: Princess Grace (former movie star Grace Kelly) gave birth to a son, Prince Albert, who thereby became heir to the throne, displacing his older sister, Princess Caroline.
15. 1930: Brigadier General Wilma Vaught born.
16. 1833: Susan Hayhurst becomes first female pharmacist.
17. 1912: Campfire Girls is created.
18. 1922: The first American Bat Mitzvah: Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan
19. 1997: Pamela Gordon elected as the first female prime minister of Bermuda after unexpected resignation of David Saul.
20. 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
21. 1943: Cornelia Ford, military pilot, died when another plane on the same air ferry mission clipped her plane's wing, crashing her plane.
22. 1972: Equal Rights Amendment sent by the U.S. Congress to the states for ratification.
23. 1857: Fannie M. Farmer born, cookbook author.
24. 1953: Queen Mary, consort of George V of Great Britain, and formerly known as Mary of Teck, died.
25. 1925: Gloria Steinhiem is born
26. 1930: Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, born
27. 1912: Two Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac River in Washington, DC, by First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of the Japanese ambassador.
28. 1982: Louisiana Tech defeats Cheney in the first NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship tournament.
29. 1918: Pearl Bailey born
30. 1932: Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
31. 1776: Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams: "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
    

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