By: Nancy Werner
NFBPWC Public Relations Chair (2024-2026) 

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October Highlights in US Women’s History 

➢ October 3, 1904 – Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African-American students in Daytona  Beach, Florida 

➢ October 4, 1976 – Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC) ➢ October 4, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice ➢ October 8, 1993 – Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for  Literature 

➢ October 10, 1983 – Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics  about mobile genetic elements 

➢ October 11, 1984 – Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to “walk” in space during  Challenger flight 

➢ October 15, 1948 – Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy ➢ October 16, 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York ➢ October 23, 1910 – Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight ➢ October 24, 1956 – Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian  Church 

➢ October 28, 1958 – Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange) Source: https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/this-month-in-womens-history/october/Happy 79^th Anniversary to the United Nations 

As World War II was about to end in 1945, nations were in ruins, and the world wanted peace.  Representatives of 50 countries gathered at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in  San Francisco, California from 25 April to 26 June 1945. For the next two months, they proceeded to draft  and then sign the UN Charter, which created a new international organization, the United Nations, which,  it was hoped, would prevent another world war like the one they had just lived through. 

Four months after the San Francisco Conference ended, the United Nations officially began, on 24 October  1945, when it came into existence after its Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the  United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories 

To Read More about the History of the United Nations and its Milestones, go to:  https://www.un.org/en/about-us/history-of-the-un