1980 Death Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56 1962 Death Hattie McDaniel actress, 'Gone With the Wind', dies at 67 1961 Event Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras 1957 Event Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited 1945 Birthday Hattie Winston, born in Greenville, Mississippi, actress on Nurse, Electric Company 1940 Event Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in New York City 1940 Event Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar 1932 Event Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) 1931 Event Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator 1924 Birthday Hattie Jacques, Kent England, actress, Carry on Doctor 1898 Birthday Hattie McDaniel, born in Wichita, 1st Black to win Oscar, 'Gone With The Wind' 1878 Birthday Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate