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HERstory
Dates of interest you probably didn't learn in school
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Don't you get tired of seeing the same old events listed on your calendar? We do. So, to help remind ourselves of some very important female firsts, we've added a few of the following to our calendars:
May 31, 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician, dies at 89.
June 3, 1906 - Performer Josephine Baker born.
June 4, 1919 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Women’s Suffrage Bill.
June 9, 2001 - Layla Ali and Jaqui Frasier-Lyde duke it out in “Fraiser vs. Ali V.”
June 10, 1898 - Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor to win an Oscar, born.
June 12, 1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court bans laws against inter-racial marriages.
June 14, 1906 - Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the first woman attached to a US armed forces unit (during WWII), is born.
June 15, 1983 - The Supreme Court strikes down state and local laws restricting abortion.
June 15, 1996 - Singing great Ella Fitzgerald dies.
June 18, 1873 - Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for US president.
June 18, 1983 - Sally J. Ride becomes the first woman in space when Challenger II is launched.
June 19, 1999 - 78,992 people came out to for opening day of the World Cup (soccer) at Giants Stadium, making it the largest attendance ever for a women’s sporting event.
June 20, 1988 - The Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and people of color.
June 22, 1933- Dianne Feinstein, the first female mayor of San Francisco, born.
June 23, 1950- Swiss parliament refuses voting rights for women.
June 24, 1997- Betty Shabazz, activist and wife of Malcolm X, dies at 63.
June 24, 1982- The Equal Rights Amendment is defeated.
June 25, 1938- Ella Fitzgerald’s “A Tiskit, A Tasket” hits #1.
June 26, 1914- Golf and track and field hall of famer Mildred “Babe” Didrikson born.
June 30, 1917- Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn.
July 1, 1971 - Washington becomes the first state in the nation to ban sex discrimination.
July 1, 1972 - Ms. magazine debuts.
July 1, 1979 - The Susan B. Anthony coin - the first U.S. coin to feature a woman - issued.
For more information, log ontoImportant Dates in Women’s History
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