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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
July 30 - August 5
Birthdays
July 30
- In 1818 Emily Bronté, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
- In 1939, Eleanor Smeal, feminist activist: A former
president of the National Organization for Women (1977) and founder
of the Feminist Majority.
July 31
August 2
- In 1896, Sarah Tilghman Hughes, US jurist and woman's rights advocate.
She was the first woman to administer the oath of office to a president
of the United States, swearing in Lydon Johnson on Air Force One in
Dallas, Texas,
after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
August 3
- In 1905, Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers.
Happenings
July 30
- In 1942, FDR signed the bill which created the women's Navy auxiliary
agency (WAVES).
August 1
- In 1785, Caroline Herschel became the first woman to discover of a
comet.
- In 1979, following her graduation from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College in Philadelphia, Linda Joy Holtzman was appointed the spiritual
leader of the Conservative Beth Israel congregation in Coatesville,
Pennsylvania, making her the first female rabbi to head a Jewish congregation
in America.
August 3
- In 1861, the US Congress authorized the Surgeon General to employ
women as nurses for army hospitals at a salary of $12 per month and
one ration a day.
August 5
- In 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in
the bedroom of her Los Angeles home.
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