This Day…

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

1914  – Catherine Marshall is born. Catherine, inspirational writer who, grieving over the death of her husband, Peter, in 1949, edited his sermons and wrote the elegy, A Man Called Peter, in 1958 married Leonard LeSourd, the inspirational editor of “Guideposts,” who posthumously published many of Catherine’s  volumes, including those chronicling her doubts and depressions

1964 – Helen Keller receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 4 other women: Dr. Lena Edwards, Lynn Fontainne, Dr. Helen Taussig, and Leontyne Price

1925 – Katherine White, joined the “New Yorker” and worked there until 1957, married E.B. White in 1929, edited Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Taylor, John Updike, Mary McCarthy and others