Did You Know?
That on September 12, 1910 – Alice Stebbins Wells, a former social worker, became the first woman police officer with arrest powers in the U.S. (Los Angeles, CA)?
That on September 14, 1964 – Helen Keller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 4 other women: Dr. Lena Edwards, Lynn Fontainne, Dr. Helen Taussig, and Leontyne Price ?
That on September 14, 1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized and became the first American-born saint-founded the first U.S. Order of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph ?
That on September 20, 1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby “No-Broad-Can-Beat-Me” Riggs in the battle of the sexes tennis match ?
That on September 25, 1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice ?
That on September 26, 1971 – Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-New York) announced she will enter the Democratic presidential primaries ?
That on September 26, 1973 – Capt. Lorraine Potter, an American Baptist minister, became the first woman U.S. Air Force chaplain ?
That on September 29, 1988 – Stacy Allison becomes first American woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest ?
