Women in History

1853 – Sarada Devi, Indian philosopher. Mukhopadhyaya was the wife and spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth century mystic...

1884 – Maria Cadilla de Martinez, Puerto Rican writer, educator and women’s rights activist, one of the first women from...

1915 – Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress Édith Piaf; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; her music was...

1961 – The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women is established by Executive Order, and Eleanor Roosevelt heads the...

1823 - Rosalie Ulrika Olivecrona (December 9, 1823 – June 4, 1898), was a Swedish feminist activist and writer. She...

2007 – Benazir Bhutto, first and only female Prime Minister of Pakistan. Her PPP office was stormed by unidentified gunmen....

1979 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British astronomer and astrophysicist, first person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe (now Harvard),...

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, On December 6, 1989, 14 women, individuals at l’École Polytechnique...

1901 – On her 63rd birthday, Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to survive going over Niagra Falls in...

Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.   She came to...