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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
August 13 - August 19
Birthdays
August 13
- In 1818, Lucy Stone, women's rights activist. She advocated that women
should keep their own name after marriage. Women who followed her example
were called "Lucy Stoners."
- In 1860, Annie Oakley, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West).
- In 1933, Joycelyn Elders, US Surgeon General who advocated condoms
for disease and birth control.
August 14
- In 1802, Letitia Elizabeth, British poet/novelist/socialite.
August 15
- In 1879, Ethel Barrymore, US actor and women's rights
advocate.
- In 1885, Edna Ferber, writer (Showboat, Cimarron, Giant).
- In 1896, Gerty Teresa Radnitz Cori, Czech-American biochemist and
the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology.
- In 1912, Julia Child, chef (French Chef).
August 17
- In 1858, Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane, minister and social activist.
- In 1892, Mae West, actor.
- In 1895, Dame Caroline Haslett, British engineer and the only woman
listed in Who Runs Britain? (published in that pre-World War
II England.)
- In 1896, Lotte (Johanna) Jacobi, photographer.
- In 1952, Dr. Kathryn C. Thornton, US astronaut.
August 19
- In 1883, Coco Gabrielle Chanel, French dress designer and perfume
creator.
- In 1885, Grace Hutchins, US labor researcher and social
reformer.
Happenings
August 13
- In 1929, the winner of a coast-to-coast women's air derby was then-little
known Louise Thaden. Entrants included Amelia Earhart. Thaden would
go on to win an all comers national race, the Bendix Derby, that drew
the best male pilots of the world with their specially built planes.
In that race, Thaden used an off-the-assembly-line Beechcraft.
August 15
- In 1993, photographer Matuschka showed her mastectomy scar in a self-portrait
cover photo on the New York Times Magazine. She said: "You can't
look away anymore."
August 17
- In 1870, Esther Morris became the first woman magistrate (South Pass,
Wyoming).
August 18
- In 1920, by one vote, Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment, giving
women the right to vote.
August 19
- In 1812, Lucy Brewer disguised herself as a man,
naming herself George Baker, and fought aboard the USS Constitution
(Old Ironsides) in its naval battle with the British frigate Guerriere
during the War of 1812.
- In 1969, The EEOC, ruled that a state's protective laws that applied
to only women were in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
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