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Activism

1871 Suffragist Carrie Burnham’s protest against the exclusion of women from the electorate began in September 1871, when she took measures to comply with local election laws in the Fourteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia. She attempted to vote on October 10, 1871. When polling officials rejected her ballot, Burnham petitioned the Court of Common Pleas for the right to vote on the grounds that she met the legal definition of a “freeman” and a citizen of the United States.

1997 The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its coordinator, Jody Williams, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

2012 The Bahamas Post Office issued commemorative stamps, titled 50th Anniversary of Women Suffrage. Each of the six stamps bore the portrait of a prominent suffragist: Mary Ingraham (15¢),Georgianna Symonette (25¢), Mabel Walker (50¢), Eugenia Lockhart (65¢), Dame Alberta Isaacs (70¢) and Dame Doris Johnson (80¢).

2014 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for risking her life for the right of children to receive an education and to live free from abuse.

Aviation and Aeronautics

1911 Božena Laglerová becomes the Czech Republic's first licensed female pilot

Science

1983 Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics about mobile genetic elements.