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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
March 5-11
Birthdays
March 5
- In 1920, Leontine Kelly, the first black female bishop (Methodist).
March 7
- In 1842, Anne van Diest, physician/feminist.
March 9
March 10
- In 1842, Ina Donna Coolbrith, poet laureate of California.
- In 1867, Lillian
D Wald, sociologist/organizer, she organized the first nonsectarian
public health nursing system in the world (1902) in New York City.(Visiting
Nurses).
March 11
- In 1726, Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay, writer (Woman,
Man & 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess .
Deaths
March 7
March 10
- In 1913, Harriet
Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on the Underground RR, died in New
York.
Happenings
March 6
- In 1886, the first US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, is
published in New York, NY.
- In 1906, Nora Blatch becomes the first woman elected to the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
- In 1921, Police in Sunbury, PA issue an edict requiring women
to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
March 7
- In 1994, the US Navy issues the first permanent order assigning
women to a combat ship.
March 8
- In 1910, Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris became the first
licensed female pilot.
- In 1945, Phyllis M Daley was the first black nurse sworn-in
as a US Navy ensign.
- In 1950, the first woman medical officer was assigned to naval
vessel (BR Walters).
- In 1986, Martina Navratilova was the first tennis player to
earn $10 million.
March 9
- In 1562, kissing in public was banned in Naples (punishable
by death).
- In 1926, Bertha
Landes was elected the first woman mayor of Seattle.
- In 1976, the first female cadets were accepted to West Point
Military Academy.
March 10
- In 1914, Suffragettes in London damage painter Rokeby's Venus
of Velasquez.
March 11
- In 1850, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first femail
medical school, was founded.
- In 1953, the first woman army doctor was commissioned (FM Adams)
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