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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:
December 30, 1959 - Comic Tracey Ulman born.
January 1, 1992 - Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, developer of the COBOL computer language, dies.
January 2, 1898 - Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics, is born.
January 3, 1793 - Abolitionist and woman?s rights advocate Lucretta C. Mott is born.
January 4, 2007 - California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female speaker of the US House of Representatives, becoming the first woman to ever hold the position and the highest-ranking female politician in American history.
January 7, 1901 - Writer Zora Neale Hurston is born in Eatonville, Florida.
January 7, 1955 - Marian Anderson debuts at the Metropolitan Opera House and becomes the first African-American in the company?s history.
January 8, 1836 - Educator Fannie M. Jackson, the first African-American woman in the UD to graduate from college, is born.
January 12, 1932 - Hattie Caray, a Democrat from Arkansas, becomes the first women elected to the US Senate.
January 15, 1961 - The Supremes sign a record deal with Motown.
January 15, 2006 - Former political prisoner, Michelle Bachelet, is elected president of Chile, the country?s first woman ever elected to the position.
January 16, 1927 - Actress and singer Eartha Kitt is born.
January 16, 2006 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa?s first elected female president, is inaugurated in Liberia.
January 18, 1777 - Baltimore newspaper publisher and postmaster Mary Katherine Goddard produced the first printed copy of the Declaration of Independence to include the name of the signers.
January 22, 1973 - The Supreme Court hears Roe vs. Wade and legalizes abortion in the US.
January 26, 1872 - Julia Morgan, who designed more than 800 structures and was the first female member of the American Institute of Architects, is born.
January 26, 1944 - Activist Angela Davis is born.
January 26, 1961 World renowned opera singer, Leontyne Price, makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House.
January 27, 1972 - Singing great Mahalia Jackson dies at age 60.
January 26, 1944 - Activist Angela Davis is born.
January 26, 1961 World renowned opera singer, Leontyne Price, makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House.
January 27, 1972 - Singing great Mahalia Jackson dies at age 60.
February 1, 1978 - Harriet Tubman becomes the first Black woman to appear on a US postage stamp.
February 3, 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician, is born in Bristol, England.
February 4, 1921 - Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, is born.
February 4, 1913 - Rosa Parks, considered the mother of the US civil rights movement, born.
February 12, 1879 - Congress authorizes female lawyers to practice before the US Supreme Court.
February 12, 1989 - Barbara Harris becomes the first female bishop in the US Episcopal Church.
February 15, 1820 - Women's suffrage movement leader Susan B. Anthony is born.
February 24, 1864 - Rebecca Lee becomes the first Black woman to earn a medical degree.
February 24, 2006 - Acclaimed science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler dies at age 58.
February 27, 2006 - Effa Manley, former co-owner of the Negro Baseball League's Newark Eagles becomes the first woman elected to the sport's Hall of Fame.
February 28, 1797 - Mary Lyon, the founder of the first college for women (Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary), is born.
February 28, 1933 - Francis Perkins becomes the Secretary of Labor - the first female appointed member of a presidential cabinet.
February 29, 1940 - Hatie McDaniel becomes the first Black woman to win an Oscar for her role in "Gone With the Wind."
March 3, 1979 - Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman to ever argue a case before the US Supreme Court.
For more information, log onto Important Dates in Womens History
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