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Birthdays
Highlights
February 1, 1978 - First postage stamp to honor a black woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC
February 4, 1987 - First "National Women in Sports Day" is celebrated by Presidential Proclamation
February 12, 1869 - The Utah Territorial Legislature passes a bill allowing women to vote
February 15, 1921 - The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol
February 15, 1953 - Tenley Albright became the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating championship
February 17, 1870 - Esther Hobart Morris in Wyoming became the first American woman Justice of the Peace
February 24, 1912 - Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Jewish organization in American history, focusing on healthcare and education in the Israel and the U.S.
February 24, 1967 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star
February 27, 1922 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees women the right to vote
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