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October is
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Canadian Women's History Month
Banned Book Month
October 1 - October 7
Birthdays
October 1
- In 1862, Esther Boise Van Deman, US archaeologist and
the first woman to specialize in Roman field archaeology.
October 2
- In 1949, Annie Leibovitz, US photographer.
October 4
- In 1941, Anne Rice, US author (Interview with a Vampire, The
Witching Hour, and my personal favorite (although not very popular)
The Mummy: Or Ramses the Damned, many more).
October 6
- In 1820, Jenny Lind, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz).
- In 1897, Dr. Florence Seibert, US chemist. She developed the process
that removed bacteria from water in a single
distillation, a step necessary for safe injections and other medical
uses. She also perfected the first reliable test for
TB that was adopted as the standard in the US in 1941 and
worldwide in 1952.
Happenings
October 1
- In 1864, Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowned when her
small open boat overturned while attempting to run the blockade of the
harbor of Wilmington, North Carolina. Her clothes were weighed down
with gold coins she was attempting to smuggle into the cash-poor South.
- In 1951, Eugenie Anderson, US Ambassador to
Denmark, was the first woman to sign a United States treaty with a foreign
power. It was a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation with
Denmark.
- In 1985, Montana enacted a state law that for the first
time in US insurance history mandated that women would no longer be
charged more for insurance than men.
October 2
- In 1650, the Plymouth colony court found Sara Norman guilty of lewd
behavior on a bed with Mary Hammon. She was given a warning and ordered
to publicly acknowledge her unchaste behavior. (The death penalty in
Plymouth applied only to sex between men.)
October 3
- In 1971, Billie Jean King became the first female athlete to win $100,000.
October 5
- In 1922, Lillian Gatlin, president of the National
Association of Gold Star Mothers, became the first woman to cross
the continent by air. She made the flight as a special delivery
package in a mail plane because there was no commercial passenger
service. She hoped that the flight would create interest in having
the second Sunday in March set aside as a Memorial Day to Fliers.
October 6
- In 1978, the US Congress passed the bill that forbade
the cross examination of a victim's prior sexual history in rape
trials.
- In 1999, Donna Brazile, an out lesbian, became Al Gore's campaign
manager. She is also the first African-American woman to manage
a presidential run.
October 7
- In 1985, Lynette Woodward was chosen as the first woman on the
Harlem Globetrotters.
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