The Harriet Tubman stamp was issued, the first stamp honoring a black woman
1905
Ayn Rand was born, author of "Atlas Shrugged," and "The Fountain-head"
1821
Elizabeth Blackwell was born, the first woman doctor in the U.S., and first woman to earn a medical degree from a U.S. college
1921
Betty Friedan was born, author of "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, cofounder of the National Organization for Women in 1966
1848
Belle Starr was born, infamous outlaw and horse thief
1913
Mary Nicol Leakey was born, archaeologist, made many discoveries of ancient hominids, worked at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
1867
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born, wrote "Little House on the Prairie," in 1935, when she was 65 years old
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Kate Chopin was born, wrote "The Awakening," in 1899 -- a radical book at the time
1854
Aletta Jacobs was born, first woman doctor in The Netherlands
1822
Eliza Lynn Linton was born, writer, first paid woman journalist in England
2001
Ellen McArthur set a record for a round-the-world solo sailing voyage by a woman
1990
Dr. Carmen Mary Lawrence became the first woman Premier of a state in Australia
1879
Sarojini Chattopadhyaya Naidu was born, poet, self-described rebel in the India Independence Movement with Gandhi
1838
Margaret E. Knight was born, inventor, patented a device to make square-bottom paper bags in 1870
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The Suffrage Monument was dedicated at the Capitol. Now, it sits in the Rotunda, and portrays Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and the Unknown Woman
1982
Agatha Barbara was elected the first female president of Malta
1870
Esther Hobart Morris became the first American woman Justice of the Peace
1922
Helen Gurley Brown was born, author of "Sex and the Single Girl," and editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine from 1965 to 1996
1917
Carson McCullers was born, wrote "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" in 1940
1924
Gloria Vanderbilt was born, fashion icon
1855
Alice Freeman Palmer was born, educator and advocate for women's higher education
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was born, feminist, poet, first woman to earn a Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1923
1901
Ruth Nichols was born, aviator, set many records, starting with the first nonstop flight from New York to Miami in 1928
1967
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astronomer, discovered the first pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star
1896
Ida Noddack was born, scientist, discovered two elements: 43 (masurium, renamed technetium), and 75 (rhenium)
1973
Jenny Thompson was born, swimmer, won 10 Olympic medals (8 gold)
1922
U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote
1797
Mary Lyon was born, founded the first women's college in the U.S., Mount Holyoke, in 1837
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Mother Ann Lee was born, founded the Shakers religious colony in the U.S.
