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2006 Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies
2004 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs beat Ai Sugiyama and Liezel Huber 2004 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Maria Sharapova beat Serena Williams 2004 Frances Dee, actress, Little Women, dies at 96 2003 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama beat Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez 2003 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams 2003 Lana Clarkson, actress, Amazon Women on the Moon, dies at 40 2002 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams Paola Suarez and Virginia Ruano 2002 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams 2002 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Antonio 2001 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs beat Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama 2001 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Justine Henin 2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis 2000 55th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship 2000 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama beat Venus Williams and Serena Williams 2000 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport 2000 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum 1999 Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, The Natural Superiority of Women, dies at 94 1999 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship 1999 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Lindsay Davenport beat Steffi Graf 1999 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu beat Mariaan de Swardt and Elena Tatarkova 1999 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose 1998 Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1998 Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open 1998 Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1998 53rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI 1998 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Martina Hingis and Jana Novotna beat Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva 1998 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Jana Novotna beat Nathalie Tauziat 1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC 1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal 1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship 1997 Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500 1997 27th New York City Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland 2:28:43 1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league 1997 Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open 1997 Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open 1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open 1997 52nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas 1997 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva beat Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf 1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as New York Liberty beats LA Sparks 1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1997 26th Boston Women's Marathon won by Fatuma Roba of Ethopia in 2:26:23 1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks 1997 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship 1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin New York City 1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City 1996 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history 1996 26th New York City Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18 1996 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1996 Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1996 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson 1996 Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open 1996 Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1996 51st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam 1996 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6 1996 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65 1995 Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women 1995 25th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06 1995 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf 1995 BPAA U.S. Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels 1995 Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1995 50th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam 1995 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11 1995 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship 1995 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: University of Ct Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64 1995 69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62) 1994 24th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37 1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf 1994 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill 1994 Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) 1994 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1994 49th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan 1994 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45 1994 Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship 1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests 1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship 1994 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62) 1993 23rd New York City Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24 1993 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf 1993 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten 1993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany 1993 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27 1993 Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship 1993 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82 1993 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62) 1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women 1992 Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women 1992 22nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40 1992 "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 245 performances 1992 Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87 1992 Alison L Gertz, U.S. aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids 1992 47th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan 1992 Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies 1992 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43 1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship 1992 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62 1992 NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, KC 1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 245 performances 1992 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies 1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of U.S. wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating 1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV 1991 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1 1991 21st New York City Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27 1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women 1991 Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47 1991 U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) 1991 Billy James, comedian/singer (Women at Play, Lusty Business), dies 1991 Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft 1991 46th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon 1991 Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies 1991 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18 1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67 1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus 1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1990 20th New York City Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45 1990 Jill Esmond, actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82 1990 45th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King 1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) 1990 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie 1990 European court rules pension rights for both men and women 1990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84 1990 Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10 1990 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23 1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa) 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1990 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64) 1990 Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ 1989 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal 1989 19th New York City Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30 1989 44th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King 1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) 1989 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33 1989 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 1989 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am 1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women 1989 Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42 1989 Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) 1988 18th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07 1988 Steve Jones wins New York men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title 1988 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann 1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts 1988 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities 1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case 1988 Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies 1988 Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana) 1988 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30 1988 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am 1987 17th New York City Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17 1987 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies 1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) 1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women 1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21 1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record, 124.9 mph 1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44 1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1986 16th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06 1986 "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS 1986 Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69 1986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) 1986 41st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes 1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women) 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) 1986 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55 1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81 1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1985 15th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34 1985 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hour women swim record of 42.05 miles in 25 meter pool 1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf 1985 40th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker 1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational 1985 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06 1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65 1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1984 Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000 1984 14th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30 1984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) 1984 Evelyn Ashford of U.S. ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec 1984 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1984 Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) 1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s 1984 39th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy 1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members 1984 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of New Zealand in 2:29:28 1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1984 Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts 1983 13th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00 1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1983 38th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson 1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less 1983 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43 1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event 1983 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1982 12th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14 1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1982 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson 1982 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Germany in 2:29:33 1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International 1982 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62 1982 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 1982 Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak 1981 56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75) 1981 11th New York City Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29 1981 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yards and 13" 1981 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) 1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf 1981 36th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International 1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women) 1981 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of New Zealand in 2:26:46 1981 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1980 Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75 1980 10th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3 1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf 1980 Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) 1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women 1980 35th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott 1980 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament 1980 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Canada in 2:34:28, Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course 1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports 1979 9th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33 1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated 1979 34th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament 1979 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1979 Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73 1979 David Lopez, Queens, New York, actor, and God Created Women, Ghostwriter 1978 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does 1978 8th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30 1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms 1978 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship 1978 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy 1978 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy 1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton 1978 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament 1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more 1978 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52 1977 7th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10 1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open 1977 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy 1977 Shany Kedmy, born in Israel, Women's 470 yachter, 1996 Olympics 1977 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33 1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament 1977 Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite 1976 6th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women 1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and bishop 1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast 1976 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner 1976 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10 1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll 1975 Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19) 1975 5th New York City Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14 1975 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies 1975 30th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 1975 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24 1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship 1975 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78 1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m 1975 International Women's Year begins 1974 Ayelet Ohayon, Israel, Women's foil fencer, 1996 Olympics 1974 4th New York City Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29 1974 29th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie 1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion 1974 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11 1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57 1974 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 1974 Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic 1974 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st U.S. women's marathon (2:55:17) 1974 Christian Bale, Wales, actor, Empire of the Sun, Little Women 1974 1st edition of women's magazine "Story" 1973 3rd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07 1973 28th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning 1973 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72 1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels 1973 Glenda Reiser, Canada, sets record women's mile, 4:34.9 1973 1st all - U.S. women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert 1973 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella 1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments 1973 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59 1973 Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic 1973 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75) 1972 2nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41 1972 Lilach Parisky, born in Israel, Women's foil fencer, 1996 Olympics 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce) 1972 27th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning 1972 Renee Heiken, Peoria, Illinois, LPGA golfer, 1994 Florida Women's Open 1972 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26 1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic 1971 1st New York City Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 1971 26th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner 1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic 1971 Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders 1970 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open 1970 Annika Sorenstam, Stockholm Sweden, LPGA golfer, 1995 U.S. Women's Open 1970 25th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young 1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service 1969 Joanne Mills, born in Sydney, Australia, golfer, T25 Holden 1994 Women's Australia Open 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open 1969 24th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young 1969 Laura Brown, born in America, golfer, member, LPGA Tour 1994 - 1997, coach Daytona Beach College women's golf team 1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational 1969 Leslie Spalding, Billings MT, golfer, Montana Women's Amat-90, 91 1968 23rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning 1968 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill 1968 Debbi Miho Koyama, LPGA golfer, 1995 U.S. Women's Open-28th 1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1967 22nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste 1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational 1967 Yael Arad, Israel, Women's half middleweight judoka, 1996 Olympics 1966 National Organization of Women founded 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1966 Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open 1966 21st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational 1966 Zola Budd, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, track and field long distance runner, trained and raced barefoot, politically controversial figure, two-time Women's 5000 meters world record holder, two-time World Cross Country Championships winner 1966 Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86 1966 Liselotte Neumann, Finspang Sweden, LPGA golfer, 1988 U.S. Women's Open 1966 Karen Lunn, born in Cowra, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Women's British Open 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open 1965 Page Dunlap, Harrisonburg, Virginia, LPGA golfer, 1994 Atlanta Women's-8th 1965 O Kommissarova (U.S.S.R.) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250') 1965 20th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann 1965 Tania Abitbol, born in Madrid, Spain, LPGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Women's Open-4th 1964 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open 1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open 1964 19th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright 1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open 1964 Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational 1964 April Heinrichs, born in Littleton, Colorado, U.S. women's soccer coach 1996 Olympics 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open 1963 Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women's foil fencer, 1996 Olympics 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational 1963 18th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open 1963 John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women 1963 Deb Richard, born in Abbeville, Louisiana, LPGA golfer, 1991 Women's Kemper Open 1963 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open 1963 Meg Mallon, born in Natick, Massachusetts, LPGA golfer, 1991 U.S. Women's Open 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational 1962 Jill Briles-Hinton, Elmhurst, Illinois, LPGA golfer, 1995 Women's Open-16th 1962 Joseph Allen, Jr., actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44 1962 Tina Lehtola, born in Finland, women's ski jumper, world's record holder 1962 17th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational 1962 Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 1961 Caroline Gowan, Greenville, South Carolina, LPGA golfer, South Carolina Women's Amat-1981, 83 1961 Frank Fay, actor (God's Gift to Women), dies in Santa Monica CA 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open 1961 Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open 1961 Spain accept equal rights for men and women 1961 16th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright 1961 Kathy Guadagnino, born in Albany, New York, LPGA golfer, 1985 U.S. Women's Open 1961 Maia Chiburdanidze, Kutaisi U.S.S.R., women's world chess champ 1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open 1960 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open 1960 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls 1960 Lauren Gregg, born in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. women's soccer coach 1996 Olympics 1960 Lauri Merten, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, LPGA golfer, 1993 U.S. Women's Open 1960 Alicia Dibos, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Women's Open-4th 1960 Jane Geddes, Huntington, New York, LPGA golfer, 1987 Women's Kemper Open 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational 1959 Jean Smart, born in Seattle, Washington actress, Charlene-Designing Women 1959 Mary Murphy, Birmingham, Michigan, LPGA golfer, 1990 U.S. Women's Open-5th 1959 14th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open 1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women 1958 Doris Humphrey, U.S. dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63 1958 1st women in English House of Lords 1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords 1958 13th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright 1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open 1958 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in 1957 12th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls 1957 Jan Hooks, born in Decatur, Georgia, comedienne actress, SNL, Designing Women 1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship 1956 Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress, Moesia, Designing Women 1956 Photography begins on "... and God Created Women" 1956 Patty Sheehan, Middlebury VT, LPGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Women's Open 1956 Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister 1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws 1956 Delta Burke, born in Orlando, Florida, actress, Suzanne-Designing Women 1956 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius 1956 Janet Anderson, born in West Sunbury, Pennsylvania, LPGA golfer, 1982 U.S. Women's Open 1955 Betsy King, Reading, Pennsylvania, LPGA golfer, 1990 U.S. Women's Open 1955 10th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker 1955 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers 1955 Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion 1954 9th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open 1953 8th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open 1952 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open 1952 Annie Potts, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actress, Mary Jo-Designing Women 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament 1952 7th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open 1952 Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59 1952 Marilu Henner, born in Chicago, actress, Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade 1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open 1952 Richard Charsworth, Australian women field hockey head coach 1996 Olympics 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open 1951 6th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls 1951 Diana Dennis, born in Portland, Oregon, body builder, Women Physique World 1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1951 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open 1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open 1951 Pat Bradley, born in Westford, Massachusetts, LPGA golfer, 1981 U.S. Women's Open 1951 Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress, WIOU, Praise of Older Women 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open 1950 French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta 1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation 1950 Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True' 1950 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open 1950 Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women 1950 5th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1950 Gloria Naylor, U.S. author, Women of Brewster Place 1949 4th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs 1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains) 1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote) 1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School 1949 Wendy Pritchard, Australian women's field hockey team manager 1996 Olympics 1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women 1948 3rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics 1948 Tony DiCicco, Wethersfield, Connecticut, U.S. women's soccer coach 1996 Olympics 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy 1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia 1947 2nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson 1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ 1947 Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer, Designing Women, Murphy Brown 1946 1st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time 1945 Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women 1945 Khaleda Zia, born in Dinajpur District, India, first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 - 1996, listed in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World 2006 1945 Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, national coaltion of 100 black women 1945 Catherine Lacoste, born in Paris, France, golfer, U.S. Women's Open 1967 1945 Donna Deitch, director, Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place 1945 Laura Lee, Rundless, singer, Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights 1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed 1945 Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype' 1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES 1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1943 Sandra Haynie, Ft. Worth, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1974 U.S. Women's Open 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid 1943 Women's Marine Corps created 1943 Jerilyn Britz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1979 U.S. Women's Open 1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use 1942 Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) 1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training 1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines 1942 U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1942 Petr Kotik, born in Prague, Czech Republic, composer, flutist, minimalist style, founder, S.E.M. ensemble, wrote opera, 'Many Many Women' 1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 1941 Susie M Berning, born in Pasadena, California, LPGA golfer, U.S. Women's Open-1972, 73 1941 Nona Gaprindasvili, U.S.S.R., world women's chess champ, 1962-78 1940 Eleanor Fount, English actress, Women in Love, Bedazzled 1939 Eleanor Smeal, leader, National Organization for Women 1939 Alexandra Stewart, born in Montreal, actress, In Praise of Older Women 1939 Dixie Carter, Tennessee, actress, Designing Women, Edge of Night 1939 JoAnne Carner, born in Kirkland, Washington, LPGA golfer, 1976 U.S. Women's Open 1939 Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, fashion designer, women 1938 Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator 1938 Susan Strasberg, New York City, actress, In Praise of Older Women, Manitou 1938 New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women 1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work 1937 Beryl Burton, UK, won record, 7, women's cycling titles 1936 Glenda Jackson, Cheshire, England, actress, Women in Love 1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul 1935 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey 1934 Brigitte Bardot, born in Paris, France, sex kitten, And God Created Women 1933 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing) 1933 German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work 1932 Sylvia Plath, Victoria Lucas, U.S., poet, Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar 1932 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center 1932 Elizabeth Southey, British CEO, National Federation of Women's Institutes 1932 John Jakes, born in Chicago, writer, Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters 1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title 1932 Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress, Little Women, Daisy Kenyon 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license 1929 Marilyn French, U.S. author, The Women's Room 1929 Joan Shawlee, born in Forest Hills, New York, actress, Prehistoric Women 1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21 1928 Roger Vadim, born in France, director, And God Created Women, Barbarella 1926 Alice Ghostley, Eve Montana, actress, Bewitched, Designing Women 1925 Anne Harris, CEO, National Federation of Women's Institutes 1924 Hans Berghuis, Dutch author and poet, 3 Women, Adam 1923 Louise Suggs, born in Atlanta, Georgia, LPGA golfer, U.S. Women's Open-1949, 52 1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris 1922 Rudi Gernreich, designer, 1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt 1922 Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win 1922 Michael Cacoyannis, director, Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women 1921 Karel Husa, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, Trojan Women 1921 Brazil adopts women suffrage 1921 1st municipal elections for men and women in Belgium 1921 Lady Fisher, founder, British Women Caring Trust 1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee 1920 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights 1920 19th amendment passes - women's suffrage granted 1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right 1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago 1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage 1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill 1919 Betty Jameson, Norman, Oklahoma, LPGA golfer, 1947 U.S. Women's Open 1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote 1918 Britain grants women (30 and over) vote 1917 New York state allows women to vote 1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives 1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis 1917 Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer, Elevator, Women 1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage 1916 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage 1916 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held 1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match 1916 Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor, El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon 1915 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding right to vote 1915 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote 1914 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK) 1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage 1913 Carlo Ponti, Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director, 2 Women 1913 Vivian Fine, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, Women in the Garden 1913 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage 1912 Jean Parker, Butte Mont, actress, Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women 1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break 1910 1st Washington State election in which women could vote 1910 Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women 1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes) 1910 Joan Bennett, Palasades, New Jersey, actress, Little Women, Disraeli 1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women 1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles" 1908 Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, U.S. singer and actor, Miracle of Women 1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 1906 Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927 1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall 1903 Majestic Theater, New York City, becomes 1st in U.S. to employ women ushers 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City 1902 Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor, 2 Women 1902 Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in New York City 1901 Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights 1901 Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer 1901 Willy Fritsch, German actor, Spies, Women in the Moon 1900 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies 1897 Frank Fay, born in San Francisco, California, actor, God's Gift to Women, Love Nest 1896 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag 1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's 1896 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess, Power of Women 1896 Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden 1895 Doris Humphrey, born in Oak Park, Illinois, dancer, Dances of Women 1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter 1893 New Zealand is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote 1891 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs 1891 Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress, Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband 1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law 1888 "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes 1884 Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women 1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 1883 Edna May Oliver, Nutter, Malden, Massachusetts, actress, Little Women 1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court 1873 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute 1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (New York City) 1870 173 Blackfoot (140 women and children) killed in Montana by U.S. Army 1869 Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet, Women in Forest 1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st) 1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves 1868 1st U.S. professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in New York City 1867 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader 1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder, League of Women Voters 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union 1857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1853 Women's Right's Convention met (New York City) 1853 Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist 1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day 1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention 1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) 1850 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens 1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass 1848 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York) 1848 Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention 1847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader, English women's movement 1841 Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy 1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions 1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women 1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) 1832 Louisa May Alcott, Germantown, Pennsylvania, author, Little Women 1832 Mary Edwards Walker, U.S., doctor/women's rights leader 1821 Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader 1820 Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women 1811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer 1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held 1805 30 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes 1800 Catherine Beecher, educator, championed higher education for women 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews 1792 Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate 1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce 1778 Catherine McAuley, born in Dublin, Ireland, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children 1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pa 1775 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol 1764 John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" 1747 Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women 1740 Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer, Three Women 1692 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass 1666 French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86 1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men 1627 Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht 1240 Raymundus Nonnatus, found Mercedariers (protect pregnant women), dies |
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