Women in History

1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino activist, “Grand Woman of the Revolution” Melchora Aquino de Ramos (January 6, 1812 – March...

2012 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and member of the Italian Senate, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...

1934- Forugh Farrokhzad one of Iran's most influential female poets of the 20th century. Forugh was born in Tehran to...

December 28, 1894 (1988) - Burnita Matthews, suffragist, the first woman to serve as a Federal district judge Her activities on...

December 26, 1981 – Execution of Mojahed mother, Massoumeh Shademani (Mother Kabiri), champion of resistance under torture One of the...

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997) She was born in Skopje, Macedonia (then still in the Ottoman Empire)...

1902 – Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania. The first election for the Parliament of the newly...

1989 – Sofiya Kalistratova, public defense lawyer in the Soviet Union she distributed information about human rights violations in the...

1865 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, executed for helping allied soldiers during WWI. Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 –...

1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons...