US Women’s History in October

• October 3, 1904 – Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida
• October 4, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice.
• October 4, 1976 – Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC)
• October 8, 1993 – Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
• October 10, 1983 – Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics about mobile genetic elements
• October 11, 1984 – Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to “walk” in space during Challenger flight
• October 15, 1948 – Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy
• October 16, 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York
• October 23, 1910 – Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight
• October 24, 1956 – Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church
• October 28, 1958 – Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange)