Almanac

June 11- June 17

Birthdays

June 11

• In 1769, Anne Newport Royall, author and first American journalist.
  
• In 1815, Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer.
  
• In 1832, Lucy Pickens, Confederate hostess, her likeness was engraved on the $100 bill of the Confederacy.
  
• In 1847, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the English women's movement.
• In 1860, Mary Jane Rathbun, biologist.
  
• In 1880, Jeannette Rankin, in 1917, she was the first woman elected to the US Congress (Montana) and offered the only dissenting vote in the Declaration of War against Japan.
  
• In 1883, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown, the first Black
  woman honored by North Carolina with a state historic site.
  

June 12

• In 1916, Alice Potter, British illustrator.
  
• In 1929, Anne Frank, diarist.
  
• In 1930, Barbara Harris, the first woman (and black and lesbian) bishop of the Episcopalian Church (1989).
  

June 13

• In 1875, Mariam Amanda Wallace ("Ma" Ferguson), two-time Governor of Texas.
  
• In 1881, Lois Weber, the first US woman film director (What Do Men Want?).
  
• In 1893, Dorothy L Sayers, novelist (9 Taylors).
  

June 14

• In 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author(Uncle
  Tom's Cabin).
  
• In 1906, Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist.
  

June 15

• In 1885, Malvina Cornell Hoffman, sculptor.
  

June 16

• In 1892, Jennie Grossinger, founder of the resort in the Catskills..
  
• In 1938, Joyce Carol Oates, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights).

Happenings

June 11

• In 1973, Women were licensed to box or wrestle in Pennsylvania.
  

June 12

• In 1973, Emily Howell was hired by Frontier airlines, becoming the first woman pilot for a scheduled passenger airline in the US.
  

June 14

• In 1938, Dorothy Lathrop won the first Caldecott Medal.
  

June 15

• In 1871, Phoebe Couzins was the first woman graduate of a US collegiate law school.
  
• In 1876, Sara Spencer (R) was the first woman to address a US presidential convention.
  
• In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn a aviation pilot's license and the first woman to earn an international aviation license from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
  

June 16

• In 1883, Baseball held the first "Ladies' Day" (the NY Gothams beat the Cleveland Spiders 5-2).