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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
May 28 - June 3
Birthdays
May 29
- In 1929, Katie Boyle [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster.
- In 1961, Melissa Etheridge, singer/songwriter/guitarist.
May 31
- In 1861, Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (she initiated the
first Christmas Seal drive in 1907).
June 1
- In 1898, Molly Picon, actress (Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof).
Deaths
May 28
- In 1849, Anne Bronté, novelist.
May 29
- In 1951, Fanny Brice, Ziegfeld Girl (Baby Snooks Show), died at age
59. Barbara Streisand starred as Fanny Brice in the movie Funny Girl.
May 30
- In 1431, French heroine Joan of Arc, age 19, a prisoner of the English,
was burned at the stake for heresy (and later canonized in 1920 by Benedict
XV).
May 31
- In 1997, Rosie Will Monroe, WWII icon (Rosie the riveter), died at
age 76.
Happenings
May 28
- In 1818, US president Thomas Jefferson set forth in a letter to a
Jewish journalist his opinion of religious intolerance: "Your sect
by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal
point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by
all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied
the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do
our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains
to be done."
- In 1851, Sojourner Truth attended the Women's Rights Convention.
- In 1923, the US Attorney General declared it legal for women to wear
trousers anywhere.
- In 1997, Linda Finch completed Amelia Earhart's attempted around-the-world
flight.
May 29
- In 1912, fifteen young women were fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing
the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
- In 1977, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to drive in the Indianapolis
500.
- In 1977, Sue Press was the first woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in-one.
May 30
- In 1965, Vivian Malone became the first black to graduate from the
University of Alabama.
May 31
- In 1665, Shabbatai Tsvi proclaimed himself the Messiah.
- In 1678, Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry to protest high taxes.
- In 1908, Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery was the first airplane passenger.
June 1
- In 1843, Sojourner Truth left New York and begin her career as an
antislavery activist.
June 2
- In 1930, Sarah Dickson became the first woman Presbyterian elder in
the US.
June 3
- In 1972, Sally J. Priesand was ordained at Hebrew Union College (Reform)
and became the first woman rabbi of the modern era. Two other movements
followed with Sandy Sasso in 1974 (first Reconstructionist woman rabbi)
and Amy Eilberg in 1985 (first Conservative woman rabbi).
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