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1931 - 17-year old Jackie Mitchell, the first woman to play baseball in the minor leagues and be signed to an all-male team as a pitcher, pitches an exhibition game against NY Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The next day, the Baseball Commissioner voided her contract, claiming baseball was too strenuous for women. The ban was not overturned until 1992.

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1911 - 80,000 people march on New York city's 5th avenue to attend the funeral of those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in late March.

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1805 - Sacagawea leads Lewis and Clark to the Pacific coast.

1987 - Opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the first museum devoted to women artists.

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1940 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) is elected to the 76th Congress to fill a slot left open by her husband's death. She was the first woman elected to both houses of Congress, serving 8 years in the House of Representatives and 24 in the US Senate. She is a 2003 Women's History Month Honoree.

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1939 - Marian Anderson sings Easter Sunday concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial.

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1933 - Ruth Bryan Owens is the first woman to represent the U.S. as a foreign minister. She is appointed by President Roosevelt as envoy to Denmark and Iceland.

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1977 - 18 women in the House of Representatives form the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues .

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1777 - American Revolution heroine Sybil Ludington, 16, rides 40 miles by horseback from town to town during the night to warn the Connecticut countryside of invading British troops.

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1993 - First "Take Our Daughters to Work" day, sponsored by the Ms. Foundation for women. (2003 will be the first "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" day).

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