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Historical data provided by the National Women's History Project.
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1848 - First medical school for women, the Boston Female Medical School, opens and eventually merges with Boston University, in 1874, to become one of the world's first coed medical schools.
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1984 - Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician, is the first American mother, and third woman, to fly into space on the shuttle Discovery
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1979 - Bethune Museum and Archives is established in Washington DC as center for African-American women's history.
1993 - The Vietnam Women's Memorial by sculptor Glenna Goodacre is dedicated in Washington, DC. Conceived by former army combat nurse Diane Carlson Evans, it honors the 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam era.
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1938 - Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is beatified. She is the first American woman citizen to become a saint.
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1889 - Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, sails around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the fictional record set by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
1903 - The women's National Trade Union League is established.
1946 - Emily Greene Balch, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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