1751: Judith Sargent Stevens Murray born (writer)
1830: Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) claimed this as her birthdate (more recent research suggests August 1 is the actual date) (labor organizer)
1852?: Martha Cannary Burke ( Calamity Jane) born (Western explorer, autobiographer)
1855: Cecilia Beaux born ( painter)
1855: Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell were married by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and issued a statement denouncing the loss of a woman's rights upon marriage.
1864: Ann M. Jarvis born ( Mother's Day promoter)
1874: Romaine Brooks born (artist)
1875: Harriet Quimby born (journalist, aviator) [or May 11]
1881: May Massee born (translator, editor, children's books)
1889: International Workers' Congress declared May 1 as a public holiday, May Day
1909: Kate Smith born (singer, television personality)
1917: Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War writes to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee
1939: Judy Collins (singer)
1985: a bronze statue of Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to the United States Congress, was added to the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol
Quote for Today
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
-- Mother Jones
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