April 1st, 1204: Eleanor of Aquataine, queen of France, died.
April 2nd, 1931: Seventeen year old Jackie Mitchell pitched a game against the Yankees and struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. April 3rd, 1934: Jane Goodall, world’s best expert on chimpanzees, was born. April 4th, 1928: Maya Angelou, activist and author, was born. April 5th, 1887: Anne Sullivan taught the word “water” to Helen Keller, partly by pouring water on her hands. April 6th, 1931: ‘Little Orphan Annie’ aired on NBC Radio for the first time. April 7th, 1987: The National Museum of Women in the Arts opens, the first museum devoted to female artists. April 8th, 1783: Catherine the Great of Russia, the country’s longest reigning female leader, annexed the Crimea. April 9th, 1933: Ruth Bryan Owen becomes the first woman to represent the U.S. as a foreign minister. April 10th, 1930: Dolores Huerta, activist, labor organizer, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union was born. April 11th, 1908: Jane Matilda Bolin, first African American female U.S. judge, and first black woman to earn a law degree from Yale was born. April 12th, 1533: Anne Boleyn is declared Queen of England. April 13th, 1909: Eudora Welty, writer, photographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was born. April 14th, 1866: Anne Sullivan, trailblazer in education and teacher of Helen Keller was born. April 15th, 2019: Aretha Franklin posthumously received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation Honor, first individual woman to win it since 1930. April 16th, 1971: Selena, famous singer, was born. April 17th, 1983: Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book The Color Purple. April 18th, 1916: Edith Wharton was appointed Chevalier of Legion of Honour for her contribution to the war effort. She was an author, and later became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature. April 19th, 1909: Joan of Arc received beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. April 20th, 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive compound radium chloride. April 21st, 2019: Greta Thunberg spoke at an Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid protests. April 22nd, 1976: Barbara Walters became the first female nightly network news anchor in the U.S. April 23rd, 1702: Queen Anne Stuart was crowned queen at Westminster Abbey.
April 25th, 1918: Ella Fitzgerald, singer considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, was born. April 26th, 1933: Carol Burnett, popular actress, comedian, singer, and writer was born. April 27th, 1927: Coretta Scott King, civil rights, human rights, and peace activist, was born. April 28th, 1960: Elena Kagan, fourth female Supreme Court Justice in the U.S. was born. April 29th, 1429: Joan of Arc arrived at the siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years War between France and England. April 30th, 1997: 42 million people watch Ellen DeGeneres, TV personality, publicly come out as gay. Resources -
Happy Women's History Month! To celebrate, I've made a calendar of "On This Day" events, all focused on Women's History! Each weekday in this month, I will post a short article on the topic of the event for that day.
Please share my blog with anyone you know who you think would enjoy my content! I greatly appreciate it! :) Events March 1, 1987 -- Congress passes a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month March 2, 1903 -- Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC March 3, 1887 -- Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old Helen Keller March 4, 1917 -- Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first female member of Congress March 4, 1522 -- Anne Boleyn makes her debut at the English court at the Green Castle pageant March 5, 1922 -- "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets. March 6, 1960 -- Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections. March 7, 1530 -- Pope Clement VII forbade Henry VIII from marrying Anne Boleyn March 8 -- International Women’s Day March 8, 1702 -- England's Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William III. March 9, 1959 -- Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York. March 10, 1898 -- Josephine Groves Holloway was born. She founded the first unofficial Girl Scout troop for African American girls and worked for two decades to have her troops recognized by the Nashville Girl Scout Council. March 11, 2006 -- Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile March 12, 1912 -- Juliette Gordon Low assembled 18 girls together in Savannah, Georgia, for the first-ever Girl Scout meeting March 13, 1944 -- Susan Gerbi, a biochemist, was born today in 1944. She helped devise a method to map the start site of DNA replication and researched the role of hormones in certain cancers. March 14, 2018 -- Angela Merkel sworn in for fourth term as German Chancellor, head of a coalition government, 171 days after the general election March 15, 2019 -- Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg March 16, 1799 -- Botanist and photographer Anna Atkins is born. She is considered to be the first person to publish a book with photographs. March 17, 1917 -- Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to join the navy and the first woman to officially join the military in a role other than a nurse March 18, 1970 -- Dana Elaine Owens (known professionally by her stage name Queen Latifah) is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actress, and producer is born. She has long been considered one of hip-hop's pioneer feminists. March 19, 1875 -- Margaret Foley, a labor organizer, suffragist, and social worker, was born today. As a passionate suffrage activist, she would loudly confront anti-suffrage speakers at events and even made a solo balloon flight where she tossed suffrage literature from the basket. March 20, 1852 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published and becomes the best-selling book of the 19th century March 21, 1986 – Debi Thomas becomes first African American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship March 22, 1972 -- Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified). March 23, 1884 -- Florence Ellinwood Allen, the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge, was born today. March 24, 1853 -- Anti-slavery newspaper "The Provincial Freeman" first published in Windsor, Ontario, edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, first black woman publisher in North America March 25, 1934 -- Gloria Steinem, women’s rights activist, organizer, and journalist, was born today. She was the founding editor of Ms. Magazine, and also helped found National Women’s Political Caucus, the Women’s Action Alliance, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. March 26, 1533 -- Anne Boleyn is presented to the world at last as Queen Consort March 27, 1997 -- Pamela Gordon became Bermuda's first woman prime minister today. March 28, 1911 -- In New York, suffragists performed the political play "Pageant of Protest." March 29, 1871 -- Royal Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London March 30, 1533 -- Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. March 31, 1776 – Abigail Adams writes to her husband John who is helping to frame the Declaration of Independence and cautions, “Remember the ladies… Resources for the Calendar 1. On This Day 2. On This Day (2) 3. “March Events”, National Women’s History Alliance 4. “International Women’s Day”, Wikipedia 5. “Equal Rights Amendment”, Wikipedia 6. “This Day in Tudor History”, The Tudors Wiki 7. Today in Women’s History |
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