SIWDC Calendar of Events
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1
First medical school for women, the Boston Female Medical School,
opens (1848) |
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| 4 Daylight Savings Time Ends |
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6
Election Day |
7
5:30
pmSoroptimist Board Meeting |
8
Birth of Dorothy Day, radical humanitarian and pacifist who founded the
Catholic Worker (1897) |
9
RSVP
for 85th Anniversary - Regrets Only |
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11
Veteran's Day |
12
Birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of of the leaders of the women's
rights movement (1815) |
13
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is beatified and later the
first American woman canonized (1938) |
14
5:30
pmSIWDC's 85th Birthday Celebration! |
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16
Margaret
Sanger was arrested for operating a birth control clinic.
She went on to found Planned Parenthood (1916) |
17
Annual Walkathon for the Homeless |
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18
Birth of Sojourner Truth, whose "Aren't I a Woman" speech electrified
an 1851 Ohio women's rights convention (1787) |
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22
Thanksgiving |
23
Passage of the Sheppard- Towner
Act, providing federal funds to states for instruction in maternity and
infant care (1921) |
24
5:00 pmMt. Carmel House |
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25
International Day to Elimnate Violence
Against Women |
26
Birth of Sarah Grimke, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (1792) |
27
SI of
Washington, DC's Birthday |
28
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is founded (1881) |
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