Women in History – 06 January
1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino activist, “Grand Woman of the Revolution” Melchora Aquino de Ramos (January 6, 1812 – March...
Read more1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino activist, “Grand Woman of the Revolution” Melchora Aquino de Ramos (January 6, 1812 – March...
Read more2012 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and member of the Italian Senate, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
Read more1934- Forugh Farrokhzad one of Iran's most influential female poets of the 20th century. Forugh was born in Tehran to...
Read moreDecember 28, 1894 (1988) - Burnita Matthews, suffragist, the first woman to serve as a Federal district judge Her activities on...
Read moreDecember 26, 1981 – Execution of Mojahed mother, Massoumeh Shademani (Mother Kabiri), champion of resistance under torture One of the...
Read moreMother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997) She was born in Skopje, Macedonia (then still in the Ottoman Empire)...
Read more1902 – Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania. The first election for the Parliament of the newly...
Read more1989 – Sofiya Kalistratova, public defense lawyer in the Soviet Union she distributed information about human rights violations in the...
Read more1865 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, executed for helping allied soldiers during WWI. Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 –...
Read more1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons...
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The copyright of all the material published on this website has been registered under © 2016 the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. To obtain permission to copy, redistribute or publish the material published on this website, you should write to the NCRI Women’s Committee. Please include the link of the original article on our website, women.ncr-iran.org.