SIWDC Calendar of Events
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1 New Years Day |
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Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) is elected to the Senate, the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate (1949) |
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor in U.S. history (governor of Wyoming) (1925) |
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Birth of Joan of Arc, heroine of the siege of Orleans who saved the French crown of Charles VII (1412) |
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Marian Anderson is the first African American woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera (1955) |
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9
5:30 pmSoroptimist Board Meeting |
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11
Birth of Alice Paul, leader of the revitalized
campaign for woman suffrage in 1913, and author of the Equal Rights
Amendment in 1923 (1885) |
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. (1932) |
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13
Club Social at Corinna's |
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RSVP
for Business Meeting - Regrets Only |
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5:30 pmSoroptimist Business Meeting |
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18
Baltimore newspaper publisher and postmaster Mary Katherine
Goddard produced the first printed copy of the Declaration of
Independence (1777) |
19
Runner Mary Decker sets a world record of 5:34:52 for the indoor 2,000-meter run (1985) |
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20
Coretta Scott King leads a march through Atlanta, GA, to honor
her slain husband's birthday, celebrated the first time that year as a
national holiday (1986) |
21
Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
22
The US Supreme Court legalized abortion in the Roe vs. Wade decision (1973) |
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25
Abolitionist and reformer Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio (1851) |
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5:00 pmMt. Carmel House |
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Violette Neatly Anderson is the first black woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (1926) |
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