Almanac

March 12-18

Birthdays

March 14

• In 1833, Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first US woman dentist.
  
• In 1923, Diane Arbus, photographer/innovator.
  

March 15

• In 1838, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist/author/Indian music (Stranger in Her Native Land).

March 16

• In 1750, Caroline Lucretia Herchel, the first modern woman astronomer.

March 17

• In 1846, Kate Greenaway, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window).
  
• In 1873, Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/first woman cabinet member.
  

Deaths

March 12

• In 1945, Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp.

March 13

• In 1906, Susan B Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85.

Happenings

March 13

• In 1942, Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, became the first woman colonel in the US army.
  

March 15

• In 1907, Finland was the first European country to give women the right to vote.
  
• In 1937, the first state contraceptive clinic opened (Raleigh, NC).
  

March 16

• In 1833, Susan Hayhurst became the first US woman graduate of a pharmacy college.
  In 1876, Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought the first female boxing match (New York).
  

March 17

• In 1969, Golda Meir became Israel's fourth Prime Minister.