Women’s History Month: March 15, 2018
Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who led Lewis & Clark’s expedition west. She traveled thousands of miles with them and was responsible for being their guide and establishing cultural contacts with other Native American tribes. She made this journey in the 1800s, with a baby in tow.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 14, 2018
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in two fields, AND the only person to win in multiple sciences. She and her husband Pierre are credited with the discovery of radium in 1898.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 13, 2018
Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist and systems engineer. She was the director of the Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory that developed on-board flight software for MASA’s Apollo program. On November 16,2016 she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 12, 2018
Billie Jean King is an American tennis player who won 39 Grand Slam titles. She famously defeated misogynist Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes in 1973.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month March 11, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights in Myanmar (Burma). She was placed under house arrest for a total of 15 years due to her political activism.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month March 10, 2018
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. She held the position from 1981 until she retired in 2006. She was not only the first woman ever confirmed for the position, but the she was the first woman ever nominated.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 9, 2018
Ada Lovelace was a mathematician best known for her work with Charles Babbage on the first computer program, the Analytical Engine. Ada was unfortunately plagued with many health problems and passed away at the age of 36 on November 27, 1852.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 8, 2018
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, but escaped and made some 13 missions to rescue people on the Underground Railroad. Harriet also led a military offense during the Civil War and was given a military pension of $20 a month beginning in 1899.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 7, 2018
Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared on July 2, 1937 over the Pacific Ocean and was declared dead on January 5, 1939 at 41 years old.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 6, 2018
Cleopatra VII was the last actual ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt. She used her knowledge of Egypt to nurse the struggling economy back to health and attempted to form an alliance with the Roman Empire through relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 5, 2018
Anne Frank was captured and imprisoned by the Nazi’s during WWII. She had kept a diary of her time in hiding. Her father had it published after the war on June 25, 1947. Anne unfortunately died at 15 years old in February of 1947 at the Bergen-Belsen death camp.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 4, 2018
Mary Shelley is the author of the famous novel Frankenstein, published January 1, 1818. She is credited with publishing the first SciFi novel and starting the genre.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 3, 2018
Rosa Parks was the face of the American Civil Rights Movement. She famously refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 2, 2018
Benazir Bhutto was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation. She was also the first elected woman to carry a baby and give birth in office. Benazir was assassinated on December 27, 2007.
Read MoreWomen's History Month: March 1, 2018
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdoms and 15 other Commonwealth realms, beginning on February 6, 1952.
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