Women's History Calendar

June Highlights in US Women's History

June 6, 1872 - Susan B. Anthony is arrested for leading a group of women to register and vote in Rochester, New York
June 24, 1903 - Madame Marie Curie announces discovery of radium
June 12, 1913 - Women in Springfield, Illinois, celebrate passage of a state woman suffrage bill
June 20, 1921 - Alice Robertson ((R-Oklahoma) becomes the first woman to chair the House of Representatives
June 23, 1940 - The first women graduate from Harvard Medical School, founded in 1783
June 8, 1949 - 11 top women players organize the Ladies' Professional Golf Assn. (LPGA), oldest women's professional sports organization in the world
June 9, 1949 - Georgia Neese Clark confirmed as the first woman treasurer of the United States
June 10, 1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted: "To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the; production of goods for commerce." (PL 88-38)
June 18, 1983 - Dr. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
June 1, 1993 - Connie Chung becomes the second woman to co-anchor evening news, 7 years after Barbara Walters became the first in 1976

June Birthdays

June 3, 1906 (1975) - Josephine Baker - dancer and jazz singer; fought racism
June 7, 1917 (2000) - Gwendolyn Brooks -- poet, first African American to win a
Pulitzer Prize
June 11, 1880 (1973) - Jeannette Rankin - pacifist; suffragist; first woman elected to Congress
June 14, 1811 (1896) - Harriet Beecher Stowe - author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
June 14, 1952 - Coach of Tennessee's Women's Basketball team. She has 900 victories in 32 years more than anyone in the NCAA.
June 16, 1902 (1992) - Barbara McClintock biologist, Nobel Prize Winner
June 17, 1865 (1915) - Susan La Flesche Picotte - first Native American physician
June 18, 1913 (1991) - Sylvia Porter columnist, author
June 21, 1912 (1989) -Mary McCarthy author, critic
June 22, 1906 (1993) - Anne Morrow Lindbergh - aviator; poet; author
June 22, 1909 (2006) - Katharine Dunham dancer and choreographer, combined African movement and classical ballet
June 23, 1940 (1994) - Wilma Rudolph - athlete; first woman runner to win 3 goldmedals in a single Olympics
June 26, 1902 (1989) - Antonia Brico conductor, pianist, first women to conduct a world-class symphony orchestra
June 26, 1914 (1956) - Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias - Athlete; outstanding in basketball, track, swimming, gold, and billiards
June 27, 1880 (1968) - Helen Keller - Advocate for the disabled; writer; lecturer
June 30, 1883 (1970) - Dorothy Tilly - Civil Rights reformer; investigated and protested lynching in Georgia
June 30, 1917 - Lena Horne - first African-American woman to sign long-term Hollywood contract; fought for contracts guaranteeing African-Americans could attend her shows