October 2014 Women's History
Post date: Oct 14, 2014 12:42:57 AM
October 3, 1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida
October 4, 1976 - Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC)
October 4, 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice
October 8, 1993 - Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
October 10, 1983 - Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics about mobile genetic elements
October 11, 1984 - Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to "walk" in space during Challenger flight
October 15, 1948 - Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy
October 16, 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.'s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York
October 23, 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight
October 24, 1956 - Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church
October 28, 1958 - Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange)
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