JUNE


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1690 (circa) Mary Read was born, infamous pirate who dressed as a man	1731 Martha Washington was born, first First Lady in 1789	1916 Josephine Baker was born, famous black dancer and entertainer, active in the French Resistance in WWII	1919 The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote; it then went to the states for ratification, which ended on August 18, 1920	1836 Miriam Leslie was born, editor, newspaper publisher, suffragist	1826 Sarah Parker Remond was born, abolitionist and doctor	1909 Virginia Apgar was born, doctor who created the Apgar Score to evaluate the health of newborns
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1860 Alicia Boole Stott was born, Irish mathematician, specialized in polytopes	1949 Georgia Neese Clark Gray became the first woman Treasurer of the U.S.	1963 The Equal Pay Act was enacted	1880 Jeannette Rankin was born, first woman elected to Congress; pacifist who voted against U.S. entry into WWI and WWII	1929 Anne Frank was born, author of diary about hiding from the Nazis during WWII	1752 Frances Burney was born, writer of novels "Evelina," "Cecilia," and "Camilla"	1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe was born, writer of antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852
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1921 Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to earn an international pilot's license	1963 Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian cosmonaut, became the first woman in space, orbiting the earth 48 times	1873 Susan B. Anthony's trial started for unlawfully voting on November 5, 1872	1901 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanova of Russia was born	6th Cent. B.C. (exact date unknown) Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, was born, warrior, sea captain, talented commander, fought in the Battle of Salamis	1905 Lillian Hellman was born, playwright, wrote "The Children's Hour," challenged the House Unamerican Activities Committee during her hearing	1997 The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) started its first season
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1917 Lucy Burns and Katherine Morey were arrested, the first suffragists picketing the White House to be arrested; the National Women's Party had been picketing since January	1940 Wilma Rudolph was born, runner, first American woman to win 3 gold medals in 1 Olympic Game	1831 Rebecca Harding Davis was born, writer of “Life in the Iron Mills,” published in “Atlantic Monthly” in 1861	1903 Madame Marie Curie presented her doctoral thesis on her discovery of radium; first woman to receive the Nobel Prize (Physics, 1903),shared with her husband; and only woman to receive 2 Nobel Prizes (Chemistry 1911)	1914 Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was born, golf and track star	1888 Antoinette Perry was born, actress, producer, director; the "Tony Awards" are named after her	1778 Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays) fought in the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War; first she carried water in pitchers, then she fired a cannon
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1871 Luisa Tetrazzini was born in Italy, opera singer, the pasta dish "chicken tetrazzini" was named after her	1915 Ina Coolbrith, poet, was appointed California's first poet laureate