Women's Birthdays & Milestones

August 30



Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley b. 1797-wrote Frankenstein

Luisa Moreno b. 1906-labor & civil rights activist

1988: Vicki Keith is 1st person to swim across all 5 Great Lakes

1988: Vicki Keith is 1st person to swim across all 5 Great Lakes




Quote for the Day

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

~ Agatha Christie

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR AUGUST

Women's Equality Day, commemorates US women's suffrage, 1920: August 26


Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"