Women in History
April
April 1: Born 1940, Wangari Maathai, Kenyan human rights and environmental activist.
April 2: Feminist scholar Barbara Caine, born in 1948.
April 3: Born 1934, Animal behaviorist Jane Goodall.
April 7: Born 1890, Everglades conservation activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
April 9: Born 1920, Marie Luring, the first woman in the Society of Automotive Engineers.
April 12: Born 1883,Eleanor Touroff Glueck, criminologist.
April 13: Eudora Welty, the only living author to date to have an email software named after her is born in 1909.
April 15: Born 1930, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, president of Iceland.
April 16: Beverly Kelley becomes the first female commander of a Coast Guard ship.
April 18: Women's World Fair opens in Chicago in 1925.
April 20: In 1988, New Zeland born American Helen Thayer, traveling on foot and on skis, reaches the North Pole with her only companion, a husky dog.
April 22: Born 1909, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurobiologist and Nobel Laureate.
April 27: Born 1927, British aviator Sheila Scott, author of I Must Fly.
April 29: In 1925, Florence Sabin becomes the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
From: Women Who Dare(Library of Congress)