"WOMEN MAKE NEWS & HISTORY EVERY DAY DATABASE": SEPTEMBER
Beverly's unique Database is the first-of-its-kind to honor women in history up to making history today. She presents little-known facts about popular personalities, as well as the many unsung heroines not found in traditional histories or reported in the media today.
THIS WEEK IN WOMEN'S HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 18-25 *
Sandra Day O'Connor, FWOTSC, First Woman on the Supreme Court. See September 25.
1889 Social activist Jane Addams established Hull House in Chicago to offer educational and cultural
services to immigrants. First American female awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
1940 Nannerl Overholser Keohane born. First female president of Duke University (1993-2004).
President of Wellesley College (1981-1993).
1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant national voting rights to all women.
1973 Billie Jean King, 29, defeated Bobby Riggs, 55, in "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match televised
to 50 million viewers worldwide.
1838 Victoria Woodhull born. First female candidate nominated for president of the U.S. for
Equal Rights Party in 1872, advocating women's suffrage and equal rights.
1931 Cardiss Collins born. U.S. Rep (D-Ill. - 1973-1997). Longest-serving African-American in Congress. Elected first female chair of Congressional Black Caucus in 1979. First female and first African-American to serve as Democratic Whip-at-Large.
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
THIS WEEK IN WOMEN'S HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 2 *
Shirley Chisholm. See September 26
1859 Adelaide Johnson born. Sculptor created "The Women Movement Portrait Monument" in 1921.
Relocated to the Capitol Rotunda in 1997 from basement storage room..
1946 Christie Todd Whitman born. First female and 50th governor of New Jersey (1994-2001).
1960 First televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
Hillary Clinton debated Donald Trump in 2016.
1971 Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) announced she would run in the Democratic presidential primaries.
1962 Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" published.
1913 Tennis champion Alice Marble born. See my article at
"Let Us Remember Alice Marble, the Catalyst for Althea Gibson to Break the Color Barrier."
1933 Madeleine M. Kunin born. First female and 77th governor of Vermont (1985-1991).
1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed by Congress.
1988 Stacy Allison became the first American female to summit Mt. Everest, after 29 days.
1868 Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" published.
1875 Suffragist Anne Martin was the first female to run for U.S. Senate in 1918, from Nevada.
1960 Blanche M. Lambert Lincoln born. Senator from Arkansas (1999-2011), following birth of twins, became the second female elected to Senate from Ark. Hattie Caraway was the first female elected to the U.S. Senate, in 1932.
1985 Montana was the first state to pass law that mandated women could not be charged more then men for life and health insurance.
1949 Photographer Annie Leibovitz born.
* Credit Source:
Beverly Wettenstein's "Women Make History Every Day Database" at