Women’s History of the month: April
Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of established. York to the funeral seven York City City to attend the funeral seven Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New of York. December 10, 1938 November 1903 of unidentified victims the Triangle unidentified victims ofand the education Triangle in the focusing on14, healthcare October 16, 1916 Shirtwaist Company fire Shirtwaist Company fire in in late late March. March. Israel and the U.S. April April 5, 5, 1911 1911 February 24, 1912
Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the citizen to become aupholds saint.civil 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the arrest sparks the modern rights Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second to play November 13, 1938 second woman woman toUS. play baseball in movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the minor leagues, December 1, 1955 the all-male all-male minor leagues, pitches Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition an exhibition game game against against the the N.Y. N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a center for October 24, 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees and strikes outthe both Babe Yankees February 27, 1922 African-American women’s history, woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock Ruth Lou Ruth and and Lou Gehrig. Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange. April 2, 1931 April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11,a1967 1979 discovery of pulsar, a rapidly December 28, (at ABC).women rotating neutron star. Fifteen the Fifteen women in in the House House of of October 4, 1976 Representatives form the signs the Representatives February 24, 1967 President Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus for Women’s Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. Issues. discrimination in employment. April April 19, 19, 1977 1977 July 2, 1964
The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, the American Revolution heroine Sybil Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Convention, the bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles women the right to vote. England Female Medical School, opens. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 milesinon on school for African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, December 10, 1869 horseback in middle of night November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the the night to to Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the militia that the British warn the3,American American militia that British October 1904 Women’s Rights Movement. Mary McLeod Bethune creates thethe National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, were invading. were invading. Council of Negro Women. Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, became 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, April 26,5,1777 1777 the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 1935 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight. Peace. fictional record set bytoPhineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the and in Independence Hall present the Vice Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis Lewis and October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark as an President with1870 the of theDays. Rights Clark Expedition Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. interpreter. November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805 April 7, 1805
July 4, 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet Harriet Quimby Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel. fly an an airplane airplane across 16 women from the National Women’s Party
were April 16, April arrested 16, 1912 1912while picketing the White Capt.Suffrage Annie Fox receives the first Purple The Monument, depicting Susan B. House demanding universal women’s Heart awarded to charged aCady woman for her service Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, suffrage; they with TheFrances state ofL.were Washington passes aandwoman Dr. Willoughby is the obstructing first while under attack at Pearl Harbor. Lucretia sculpted byNavy. Adelaide traffic. constitutional amendment to guarantee doctor inMott, the regular U.S. December 7, 1941 at the U.S. Capitol. Johnson, is dedicated woman suffrage. October 15, 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, November 8,1921 1910 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 Ruth Bryan
represent the U.S. as a foreign minister represent the Althea Gibson is U.S. the first African American when she is appointed as when player she is appointed as envoy envoy totitle in woman to win a Wimbledon Denmark. Denmark. women’s tennis singles. April April 13, 13, 1933 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of a stock (American Stock Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). concert for more than Lincoln Skating championship. concert for more than 75,000 75,000 atfor Lincoln Women’s International Leagueat Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 Memorial. Memorial. February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is1961 awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December April 9, 1939 Prize. April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Cheek, Judith Rodin is named president ofU.S. Univ. November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Opening of the National Museum of Opening of the National Museum of of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Women Dr.Ivy Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an League institution. during Challenger flight. Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig)women ordained as the first devoted the first museum museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American mother 15 October 11, 1984 the Episcopal December 1993 artists. artists. February 1,17, 1978 and first thirdwomen American woman topriests. fly into space. April 7, April 7, 1987 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984
