It's the final day of Women's History Month! In a letter dated March 31st 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John who was helping to frame the Declaration of Independence. Mrs. Adams cautioned him to “Remember the ladies…” ♀️📜💕
Happy 30th day of Women's History Month! Today in 1855 Charlotte Johnson Baker was born. She became the first woman physician to practice medicine in San Diego, California, and practiced obstetrics and gynecology at St. Joseph’s Hospital. ⚕️💕
Pearl Bailey was born in 1918 on this 29th day of Women's History Month! This glorious jazz and blues singer, won amateur contests in Harlem and Philadelphia when she was 22 years old, sang with Cab Calloway, starred in movies, and was even a goodwill ambassador for United Nations. 🎙️💕
This 28th day of Women's History Month is Clara Lemlich's birthday! Born in 1886, this Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine was a labor activist, suffragist, a consumer advocate, and leader of the Uprising of 20,000, a labor strike of shirtwaist workers in New York’s garment industry in 1909. ✊💕
Today is not only the 27th day of Women's History Month, but also the lovely Miss Sarah Vaughan's birthday! This world renowned jazz singer and pianist, also known as the “Divine One”, would've been 101 today. 🎤💕
Today in Women's History Month we have 2 special birthdays! Sandra Day O’Connor (born 1930) was the first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Nancy Pelosi (born 1940) was the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. 🏛️💕
Today we get to celebrate not only the 25th day of Women's History Month, but also wish a very happy 76th birthday to Lillian E. Fishburne, the first African American female to hold the rank of Rear Admiral (RDML) in the United States Navy. (1998) 🇺🇸⚓💕
The 24th day of Women's History Month is Matilda Joslyn Gage's 127th birthday! This suffragist, women’s rights and Native American rights activist, and historian was also a founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association. 🎂💕
We continue Women's History Month with today being the 108th anniversary (1917) of when Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard established the Hogarth Press. Starting with a hand press and their own short stories, they later expanded to include works by other modernist writers and translations.📚💕
It's day 22 of Women's History Month! Today in 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed. Under the leadership of Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, it won the requisite two-thirds vote from the U.S. House of Representatives in October 1971, and was approved the following March. ♀️💕
Happy 21st Day of Women's History Month! In case you didn't already know, March 21st 1986 is the date when Debi Thomas became the first African American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship! ⛸️💕
Welcome to the 20th day of Women's History Month! On this day in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published and became the best selling novel of the 19th century. 📖💕
Another Women's History Month birthday! Loretta Mary Aiken, aka Moms Mabley, was born today in 1897! Starting on stage in the 1920s, she was a veteran of black vaudeville's Chitlin' Circuit, and later appeared in films and tv, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. 📺💕
It's the 18th day of Women's History Month, and on this very same day in 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school. She was top of her class at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.🪶⚕️💕
Happy 17th Day of Women's History Month! On this date in 1917, Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to join the navy, and the first woman to officially join the military in a role other than a nurse. 🪖💕
Day 16 of Women's History Month is Caroline Herschel's 125th birthday. Considered the 1st professional female astronomer, she did many of the calculations for her brother Sir William Herschel's work, detected by telescope 3 nebulae in 1783, and became the 1st woman to discover a comet in 1786. ☄️💕
Oops. That should've said Day 15. Sorry. Groggy-posting. 😄
It's Day 5 of Women's History Month, and also World Quilting Day! I'm highlighting Irene Sparks of New Zealand, who began collecting ties in 2000 in order to make quilts. She made 2 quilts in 3 years, but also set the 2017 Guinness World Record for the largest collection of ties. (21,321) 👔💕
It's day 14 of Women's History Month! Today in 1979, Judy Chicago opened "The Dinner Party" at SF MoMA, an art installation of a 48' per side triangular table, with place settings featuring vulvar and vaginal imagery. The piece is one of the most famous and controversial works of feminist art. 🍽️💕
Another Women's History Month fav! March 11th 1986 was when Susan Butcher famously won the first of three consecutive victories (1986-1988) in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and then a fourth time in 1990, making her a legendary figure in the sport.🐕🛷💕
It's day 12 of Women's History Month, and today in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low assembled 18 girls together in Savannah, Georgia, for the first-ever Girl Scout meeting! Cookiiiiiies!!! 🍪💕
Day 11 of Women's History Month is the birthday of Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE, a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. Also a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher, Binta performed her work around the entire world. 🇯🇲💕
Today is Harriet Tubman Day! Born Araminta "Minty" Ross, she later took her mother's first name, and her husband's last name. She was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, which was a network of safe houses, churches, and homes where enslaved people hid along on their path to freedom. 🚂💕
Day 9 of Women's History Month is also National Barbie Day! Did you know that aside from inventing the Barbie doll in 1959, Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko) was also co-founder of Mattel with her husband Elliot, as well as serving as the company's first president from 1945 to 1975? 💃💕
The 8th day of Women's History Month is also International Women’s Day honoring the fight for women's political rights. The earliest IWD was organized in NYC in 1909, inspiring delegates at the 1910 Int'l Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen to propose Women's Day be organized annually.🌎♀️💕
Day 7 of Women's History Month is the 87th birthday of Janet Guthrie, a pioneering auto racer! In 1977, she became the 1st woman to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500. Ms. Guthrie broke barriers in a male-dominated sport, and remains an influential figure in motorsports today.🏁💕
