Today is British suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst's birthday!
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Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Blog news!
Dear readers,
Our blog has been running for almost a year now! We don't want to repeat ourselves, so we will generally not be posting about past birthdays and events in women's history from here on. (Check out the websites www.factmonster.com/birthday and http://www.nwhp.org/news/calendar.php for daily historical events and birthdays!)
We will continue to post about current events relating to women's history and equal rights advocacy and awareness with links and articles, so stay tuned!
Thanks,
The United States Women's History Project
Our blog has been running for almost a year now! We don't want to repeat ourselves, so we will generally not be posting about past birthdays and events in women's history from here on. (Check out the websites www.factmonster.com/birthday and http://www.nwhp.org/news/calendar.php for daily historical events and birthdays!)
We will continue to post about current events relating to women's history and equal rights advocacy and awareness with links and articles, so stay tuned!
Thanks,
The United States Women's History Project
Thursday, August 14, 2008
What happened in women's history today?
Today is former Olympic swimmer Debbie Meyer's birthday. Also on today's date in 1986 "Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper retires from active duty in the US Navy. A pioneering computer scientist and inventor of the computer compiler, she was the oldest officer still on active duty at the time of her retirement," says the National Women's History Project.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
A Catch-up List of August 1-7 Birthdays
A quick catch-up on happenings in women's history for this first week of August!
August 1st: Astronomer Maria Mitchell's birthday.
August 2nd: Chilean author Isabelle Allende's birthday.
August 3rd: Senior rights activist Maggie Kuhn's and entrepreneur, author and T.V. personality Martha Stewart's birthdays.
August 4th: White House correspondent Helen Thomas's birthday.
August 6th: Actress Lucille Ball's, tennis player Helen Jacob's, and lawyer and suffragist Inez Millhollan Boissevain's birthdays. Also, the "1965 Voting Rights Act outlaws the discriminatory literacy tests that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting," says the National Women's History Project.
Today is suffragist Paulina Wright Davis's and labor organizer and leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's birthdays.
August 1st: Astronomer Maria Mitchell's birthday.
August 2nd: Chilean author Isabelle Allende's birthday.
August 3rd: Senior rights activist Maggie Kuhn's and entrepreneur, author and T.V. personality Martha Stewart's birthdays.
August 4th: White House correspondent Helen Thomas's birthday.
August 6th: Actress Lucille Ball's, tennis player Helen Jacob's, and lawyer and suffragist Inez Millhollan Boissevain's birthdays. Also, the "1965 Voting Rights Act outlaws the discriminatory literacy tests that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting," says the National Women's History Project.
Today is suffragist Paulina Wright Davis's and labor organizer and leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's birthdays.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Birthdays
July 27th was Peggy Fleming's birthday, the 28th was the birthdate of Beatrix Potter, Lucy Burns and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and today's date is the birthday of Elizabeth Hanford Dole and Nancy Landon Kassebaum.
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Birthdays and more
Today is both Amelia Earheart's and Bella Abzug's birthdays!
Again, our apologies for not regularly posting; we have been incredibly busy! You can catch up on any women's history tidbits from July that we neglected at http://www.nwhp.org/news/july.php.
The Women's History Project
Again, our apologies for not regularly posting; we have been incredibly busy! You can catch up on any women's history tidbits from July that we neglected at http://www.nwhp.org/news/july.php.
The Women's History Project
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Iris Murdoch
We apologize for the lack of posts lately! Today is European author Iris Murdoch's birthday.
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Birthdays!
Today is the birthdate of Antonia Brico, the "first women to conduct a world-class symphony orchestra," and athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias .
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Birthdays
Today is birthday of both politician Benazir Bhutto and author Mary McCarthy.
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Friday, June 20, 2008
Today in women's history
Today is dramatist Lillian Hellman's birthday. Also on today's date in 1921 "Alice Robertson ((R-Oklahoma) becomes the first woman to chair the House of Representatives," says NWHP.
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
An ammendment and links!
Our apologies: we neglected to mention that Barbara McClintock's birthday was the 16th, not today's date, the 17th! (The two other birthdays mentioned are correct.)
Also, check out these links: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/, a site that has biographies of women around the world, and http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/whm/0,8805,101044,00.html, the Time For Kids Magazine site's women's history month features.
The Women's History Project
Also, check out these links: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/, a site that has biographies of women around the world, and http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/whm/0,8805,101044,00.html, the Time For Kids Magazine site's women's history month features.
The Women's History Project
Birthdays
Happy birthday to biologist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), first female Native American doctor Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915), and tennis player Venus Williams !
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Connie Chung
On today's date in 1993, "Connie Chung becomes the second woman to co-anchor evening news, 7 years after Barbara Walters became the first in 1976," says NWHP. Today is also Marilyn Monroe's birthday.
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Birthdays!
We apologize for the lack of posts lately! On today's date, Lorraine Hansberry was born; she was the first women to have a play produced on Broadway with A Raisin in the Sun. Today is also the birthday of British politician Nancy Astor, who was the was the first woman to serve in the British House of Commons; and Nora Ephron, an actress and screenwriter known for her strong female roles.
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
Monday, May 12, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Nellie Bly and Dorothy Andersen
Happy birthday to writer Nellie Bly! Also on today's date, in 1938, "Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen presents results of her medical research identifying the disease cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Assn."
The Women's History Project
The Women's History Project
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