Inspirational coach dies

North Carolina State's women's basketball coach, Kay Yow, passed away this morning at age 66. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, and was admitted to the hospital last week. Yow raised awareness and support for breast cancer research throughout her battle with the disease, and was a "giver and she gave so much to every life she touched,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt. Yow also coached NC's team, the Wolfpack, from 1975-2009; had over 700 career wins; and was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

She will be much missed, and our thoughts are with her family in this time of grief.

For a more detailed report, click here: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/womens-basketball/news?slug=ap-obit-kayyow&prov=ap&type=lgns.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Today is British suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst's birthday!
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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,
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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.

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.

Emily Bronte

Today is British author Emily Bronte's birthday.

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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.

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Charlotte Beer

Today is Charlotte Beer's birthday!
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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.

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Iris Murdoch

We apologize for the lack of posts lately! Today is European author Iris Murdoch's birthday.

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More Birthdays!

Today is the birthdate of both Helen Keller and Vera Wang!

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Birthdays!

Today is the birthdate of Antonia Brico, the "first women to conduct a world-class symphony orchestra," and athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias .

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Birthdays

Today is birthday of both politician Benazir Bhutto and author Mary McCarthy.

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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.

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What happened in women's history on June 18th?

On June 18th, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 dollars in her attempt to vote in the 1872 presidential election; Sally Ride became the first American woman in space; and aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.


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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 !

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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.

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Dolley Madison

Happy birthday to Dolley Madison!

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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.

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Birthdays

Today is Florence Nightingale's and Katharine Hepburn's birthdays!

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