This Month in Women's History

• March 3, 1887: Anne Sullivan arrived at the home of young Helen Keller to begin to teach her to communicate.
  
• March 3, 1913: Woman suffrage supporters marched in Washington, D.C., disrupting the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Onlookers attacked while police stand by.


• March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins' appointment as Secretary of Labor announced -- first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. President's Cabinet.


• March 8, 1702: Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, ascended to the British throne. Women workers in New York City strike for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. Phyliss M Daley sworn in as navy ensign, the first black nurse to achieve that office.


• March 9, 1976: West Point Military Academy accepts its first female cadet.


• March 13, 963: Anna born - her marriage to Vladimir of Kiev led to the Christianization of Russia


• March 20, 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin.


• March 21, 1972: Equal Rights Amendment sent by Congress to the States for ratification.


• March 24, 1820: Fanny Crosby born.


• March 26, 1930: Sandra Day O'Connor born.


• March 26, 1973: Ten women became the first women to be admitted as members of the London Stock Exchange.


• March 27, 1912: Two Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac River in Washington, DC, by First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of the Japanese ambassador, Viscountess Chinda; the idea was a fulfillment of a long campaign by photographer and travel writer Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore.


• March 30, 1932: Amelia Earhart became first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.


• March 31, 1776: Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams: "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."