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:

October 29, 1966 - The National Organization of Women founded.

October 31, 1984 Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.

November 2, 1921 - The American Birth Control League is founded by Margaret Sanger in New York City. It combined the National Birth Control League (founded in 1914) with the Voluntary Parenthood League (founded in 1919).

November 3, 1997 - California law effectively ends state Affirmative Action.

November 5, 1968 - Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African-American woman ever elected to Congress.

November 6, 1917 - New York State allows women to vote a full two years before the 19th Amendment is passed.

November 7, 1986 - New York City elects its first female comptroller - Liz Holtzman.

November 8, 1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first college in the U.S. specifically for women, opens for classes.

November 11, 1990 - The US Golf Association bans racial and gender discrimination.

November 12, 1994 - Track and Field legend Wilma Rudolph dies of brain cancer at age 54 in Nashville, Tennessee.

November 18, 1787 - Sojourner Truth is born.

November 26, 1883 - Sojourner Truth dies at age 96 in Battlefield, Michigan.

December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus for a White passenger in Selma, Alabama.


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