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Margaret Brent- First Published American Woman
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Anne Catherine Hoof Green takes over her late husband's printing and newspaper business, becoming the first American woman to run a print shop. The following year she is named the official printer for the colony of Maryland.
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The first public high school for girls opens in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Antoinette Blackwell becomes the first American woman to be ordained a minister in a recognized denomination (Congregational).
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Lucy Hobbs becomes the first woman to graduate from dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.
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In Wyoming, for the first time in U.S. history, women are allowed to serve on a grand jury.
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Susanna Medora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town, in Argonia, Kansas.
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Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent,
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Alice Guy Blaché, the first American woman film director,
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March 12, the first Girl Scouts troop in America is founded in Savannah, Georgia, by Juliette Gordon Low.
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Mary Davenport-Engberg is the first woman to conduct a symphony orchestra, in Bellingham, Washington.
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Maxine Dunlap becomes first American woman to earn a glider pilot license.
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Hattie Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
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The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is established in the United States.
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Edith Houghton becomes the first woman hired as a first major-league baseball scout
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Oveta Culp Hobby becomes the first woman to serve as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Jerrie Cobb is the first woman in the U.S. to undergo astronaut testing.
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The Equal Pay Act makes it illegal for companies to pay different rates to women and men who do the same work.
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Diane Crump becomes the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby.