1640: Aphra Behn baptized (writer)
1883: Grace Bailey born (stage name Jane Cowl; actor, playwright)
1897: Margaret Chase Smith born (public official)
1961: President's Commission on the Status of Women established by Executive Order 10980, President John F. Kennedy. Eleanor Roosevelt headed the Commission, whose work resulted in passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
1970: National Press Club, Washington, DC, voted to admit women to membership after excluding women from membership since the club's founding
1985: Wilma P. Mankiller sworn in as tribal chief of the Cherokee nation, served 1985-1994. She was the first woman to hold this post.
Quote for Today
... the Sisterhood is all of us. It is every woman who is keeping the dream alive. And the oldest dreamkeepers, the Grandmothers, are in danger at this very moment. We must write and we must act to keep the knowledge and the powers of woman alive.
— Lynn Andrews
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