Women's Birthdays & Milestones

August 6



Florence Goodenough b. 1886-psychologist

Lucille Ball b. 1911-comedian, actor

Abbey Lincoln b. 1930-jazz singer, composer

1926: Gertrude Ederle is 1st woman to swim the English Channel




Quote for the Day

"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult."

~ Charlotte Whitton, Mayor of Ottawa

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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"