Almanac

June 25 - July 1

Birthdays

June 25

• In 1872, Birdsall Otis Edey, president of the Girl Scouts and a pioneer for woman's suffrage.
  

June 26

• In 1812, Fanny (Frances Flora Bond) Palmer, US lithographer and staff artist for Currier and Ives.
  
• In 1911, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, named the world's greatest woman athlete for the first half of the 20th century.
  
• In 1892, Pearl S Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938).
  

June 27

• In 1869, Emma Goldman, Russian-born American anarchist
  and labor leader (edited Mother Earth).
  
• In 1880, Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer.
  

June 28

• In 1906, Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist, she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for theoretical physics (1963).
  

June 30

• In 1917, Lena Horne, singer (Stormy Weather), she began as a singer-dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem and became the most successful black singer of
  the 30s and 40s.

July 1

• In 1804, George Sand, French novelist.
  
• In 1850, Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates, US poet, chosen poet laureate of Pennsylvania.
  
• In 1908, Este Lauder, learned sales at the family hardware store.
  
• In 1941, Twyla Tharp, US dancer and choreographer.
  
  

Happenings

June 25

• In 1910, The Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation
  of females across state or internationally lines for immoral purposes, was enacted by the US Congress.
  
• In 1972 Berenice Gera became the first female umpire in pro baseball.
  
• In 1981, the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the congressionally mandated all-male draft. Many feminists opposed the draft, but said if there was to be one, it should include women.
  

June 27

• In 1693, the first woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury," was published (London).
  
• In 1833, Prudence Crandall, a white woman, was arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, CT.
  
• In 2000, Cantor Ann Turnoss (Boca Raton, Florida) prayed at the Western Wall without being jeered, most likely
  because of the large news contingency attending her appearance and the recording of any violence.
  

June 28

• In 1778, Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aided American patriots.
  
• In 1838, Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned.
  
• In 1996, the Citadel voted to admit women, ending a
  153-year-old, men-only policy for the school.
  

June 29

• In 1967, Israel removed all barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
  
• In 1969, the first Jewish worship service at White House was held.
  

June 30

• In 1870, Ada Kepley was the first female law college graduate in the US.
  
• In 1927, Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie received the first pilot's
  license issued to an American woman.
  

July 1

• In 1851, an Iowa law went into effect that barred women, white or black, or black men from becoming lawyers by using the term "any white male person." The "white male" term was replaced by "he or she" in 1870.
  
• In 1872, an Illinois law went into effect that stated "no person shall be precluded or debarred from any occupation or employment (except military) on account of sex, provided that this act shall not be construed to affect the eligibility of any person to an elective office. Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring any female to work on streets or roads, or serve on juries." This allowed women to become doctors and lawyers.
  
• In 1972, Ms. Magazine began publishing.
  
• In 1984, Liechtenstein become the last European country to remove barriers which prevented women from voting.