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October is
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Canadian Women's History Month
Banned Book Month
October 8 - October 14
Birthdays
October 10
- In 1812, Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet, US author. Her three-volume
Women of the American Revolution researched primary sources.
October 11
- In 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt. Perhaps one of the most important women
of the century.
October 12
- In 1923 Jean Nidetch, founded Weight Watchers.
October 14
- In 1906, Hannah Arendt, German-born American political scientist
and philosopher. She was the first woman professor at Princeton (1959).
She condemned the separation of moral thought from political action.
She wrote Rahel
Varnhagen and Eichmann
In Jerusalem.
Happenings
October 8
- In 1904-In Germany, lesbian feminist Anna Ruhling spoke at an annual
meeting of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, one of the earliest
gay organizations, criticizing the women's movement for not taking an
active role in ending the oppression of lesbians.
October 9
- In 1976, the four-woman team of Doreena Cary, Diane
Greib, Kathy Roads, and Dorothy McCarthy set the record for chicken
plucking: 12 birds in 32.9 seconds.
- In 1984, Kathy Sullivan became the first US woman to walk in space.
October 10
- In 1978, President Carter signed a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony
dollar.
October 11
- In 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded.
- In 1922, the first woman FBI "special investigator"
was appointed (Alaska Davidson).
- In 1991, Anita Hill testified that Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed
her.
October 12
- In 1949, Eugenie Anderson became the first woman ambassador nominated
in the US.
October 13
- In 1914, Annette Abbott Adams became the first US female
federal prosecutor when she was sworn in as Attorney General in
California.
- In 1939, Evelyn Kilgore received her certification from
the Civil Aeronautics Authority as the first woman flight
instructor.
October 14
- In 1979, the first national march for lesbian and
gay rights was held in Washington DC with more than 100,000 marchers.
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