MARCH


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1987 The first observation of National Women's History Month in the U.S.	1903 The Martha Washington Hotel opened in New York City,a residency hotel for women only	1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born, winner of 6 Olympic medals in track and field	1917 Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first woman member of the U.S. Congress	1931 Geraldyn (Jerrie) Cobb was born, the first woman to pass the test for astronaut training (1959) although she was not allowed to train	1791 Anna Claypoole Peale was born, a painter who specialized in portrait miniatures	1893 Lorena Alice Hickok was born, journalist and friend/mentor to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
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1908 International Women's Day celebrated as a day to honor the women's rights movement	1976 First women cadets at West Point Military Academy admitted	1952 Dr. Maria Telkes was notified that she won the first Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers	1993 Janet Reno was confirmed as first woman U.S. Attorney General	1877 Annette Abbott Adams was born, first woman to be U.S. Attorney (1918), Asst. U.S. Attorney General (1920), and appellate justice (1942)	1986 Susan Butcher won the first of 3 straight and 4 total Iditarod Trail Sled Dog races in Alaska	1923 Diane Arbus was born, famous and influential photographer
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1905 Margaret Webster was born, first woman to direct at the Metropolitan Opera House and founder of American Repertory Theater	1883 Susan Hayhurst, M.D. became the first woman to graduate from pharmacy college in the U.S.	1863 Anna Wessels Willaims, M.D. was born, helped create diptheria vaccine in 1894	1964 Bonnie Blair was born, speed skater, won 5 Olympic gold medals	1989 Midori Ito, from Japan, won the World Championship in Ladies Figure Skating; first woman to land a triple axel in international competition (1988)	1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published	1905 Phyllis McGinley was born, winner of the Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1961
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1638 Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the U.S. for expressing her religious beliefs	1857 Fannie Farmer was born, first person to standardize measurements in cooking; compiled the "Fannie Farmer Cookbook" (1896)	1912 Dorothy Height was born, served as President of the National Council of Negro Women from 1957 to 1998	1934 Gloria Steinem was born, feminist, founder of "Ms." magazine in 1971, journalist and author	1964 "Funny Girl" opened on Broadway, starring actress Barbra Streisand	1454 (circa) Jeanne Hachette was born, saved her city, Beauvais, France, in 1472 by attacking invaders' flag-bearer and lifting her people's morale	1952 Tenley Albright won the U.S.Figure Skating Championship, and went on to win it the next 4 years, too
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1918 Pearl Bailey was born, singer and actress, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988	1863 Mary Whiton Calkins was born, important psychologist, studied at Harvard as a "guest," but was refused a degree because she was a woman	1776 Abigail Adams, First Lady, wrote to her husband John, "Remember the Ladies" urging equality for women