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Historical data provided by the National Women's History Project.

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1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for black students in Daytona Beach, FL

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1976 - Barbara Walters becomes first woman co-anchor of evening news (at ABC)

1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins Supreme Court as second woman and 107th justice

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1993 - Toni Morrison becomes the first African-American woman and the first African-American, to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

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1983 - Dr. Barbara McClintock receives Nobel Prize for Chemistry for discovery of mobile genetic elements

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1984 - Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to "walk" in space during Challenger flight

 
Race for the Cure

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2009 - Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics.

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Leadership Conference

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1948 - Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy.

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1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the nation's first Women's clinic in Brooklyn, NY.

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1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott is the first woman pilot to make a public flight.

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1956 - Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church.

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1958 - Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange)

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