This Day…

1920: Charlotte Woodward—who as a young woman had signed the historic 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration calling for women’s suffrage—cast her ballot in a U.S. presidential election.

1854 – Florence Nightingale and a team of 38 nurses set out for the Crimea to care for wounded British soldiers.

1958 – Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange)

1950 – “All About Eve” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter premieres (Academy Awards Best Picture 1951)

1930 – Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.

1915 – English nurse Edith Cavell is sentenced to death along with 34 others by a German court-martial for running an underground network to free Allied soldiers

1911 – California suffrage campaigns reached a fever pitch just six days before a historic vote on women’s right to vote in the state.

1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death

1895 – Stephen Crane‘s novel “The Red Badge of Courage” is published to wide acclaim