MAY


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1830 "Mother Jones's" chosen birthday, labor activist	1729 Catherine the Great was born, czarina of Russia; reigned 34 years	1979 Margaret Thatcher won election as Prime Minister, becoming Britain's first woman PM	1929 Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, actress, won Oscar for "Roman Holiday" in 1953	1809 Mary Kies became first woman to patent an invention in her own name in U.S.; it was for weaving straw with silk and thread to make hats	1852 (circa) Calamity Jane was born, cowgirl, army scout, performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show	1919 Eva Duarte Peron was born, First Lady of Argentina (1946 - 1952), labor activist
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1914 The first national Mother's Day was declared in the U.S.; it would be celebrated on the 2nd Sunday in May	1844 Belle Boyd was born, Confederate spy and actress	1872 Victoria Woodhull, radical liberal, was nominated as the first woman candidate for U.S. President, for the Equal Rights Party	1893 Martha Graham was born, dancer and choreographer, invented modern dance	1968 "Welfare Mothers" marched in D.C., led by Coretta Scott King and Ethel Kennedy, advocating welfare reform	1888 Inge Lehmann was born, geophysicist, discovered earth's inner core in 1936	1861 Adelina Patti made her debut in Europe as an opera singer at 18 years of age
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1937 Madeline Albright was born, the first woman U.S. Secretary of State, 1997-2001	1975 Junko Tabei, of Japan, became the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest	1903 Lena Levine was born, advocate for birth control	1970 Tina Fey was born, comedian, first female head writer for TV's "Saturday Night Live"	1930 Lorraine Hansberry was born, first black woman to produce a play on Broadway, "A Raisin in the Sun," in 1959	1768 Dolley Madison was born, First Lady of the U.S. 1809- 1817, tactful hostess and mediator	1973 Lynn Genesko, swimmer, received the first U.S. athletic scholarship for a woman from the University of Miami
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1844 Mary Cassatt was born, painter, important part of the Impressionist Movement; awarded the Legion of Honor in 1904	1810 Margaret Fuller was born, writer and foreign correspondent, first woman journalist in the U.S., radical feminist	1878 Lillian Moller Gilbreth was born, first woman member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926	1913 Brownie Wise was born, developed home parties to sell Tupperware products	1951 Sally Ride was born, first U.S. woman astronaut	1907 Rachel Carson was born; wrote "Silent Spring;" pioneered the environmental protection movement	1980 Andrea Lee Hollen became the first woman to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
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1977 Janet Guthrie became the first woman to qualify and race in the Indianopolis 500	1848 Maria Mitchell, astronomer, first woman to discover a telescopic comet, became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences	1912 Chien-Shiung Wu was born, physicist; first woman elected president of the American Physical Society in 1975