Celebrating National Women's History Month 2020 with the theme: “Valiant Women of the Vote” This March 5th
On Today, March 5th, We Are Celebrating National Women's History Month 2020 with the theme: “Valiant Women of the Vote.” The theme honors "the brave women who fought to win suffrage rights for women, and for the women who continue to fight for the voting rights of others."
Facts of the Faithful: Day 5 March 5, 1931 – Geraldyn (Jerrie) Cobb is born. She became the first woman to pass qualifying exams for astronaut training in 1959 but wasn’t allowed to train because of her gender.
4. Nellie Bly (1864-1904). A journalist, she launched a new kind of investigative reporting. She is best known for her record-breaking trip around the world by ship in 72 days. (Recommended biography here.)
5. Amelia Earhart (1897-1939). Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for her accomplishments. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared in 1937 over the central Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the globe. (Recommended biography here.)
By The Numbers 5. Over 60 percent of college degrees awarded in the U.S. every year are earned by women. In fact, women are more likely than men to get a high school diploma as well, and the numbers are only expected to rise in the coming years.
From: 31 TWEETABLE FACTS 5. In 1943, many MLB stars had joined the armed services. To keep the game alive, baseball executives started the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. More than 600 women played for the league’s teams. #ALeagueOfTheirOwn #WomensHistoryMonth https://bit.ly/1VSbHaZ
From: 19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented by Women Paper Bags -- America got a brand new paper bag when cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented a machine to make them with a flat square bottom in 1868. (Paper bags originally looked more like envelopes.) A man named Charles Annan saw her design and tried to patent the idea first. Knight filed a lawsuit and won the patent fair and square in 1871.
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