Women's History Month

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  1. 2. In what country was the first International Women's Day observed (1913-1914)
  2. 6. A newspaper established by women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York City in 1868
  3. 9. The first place in the world to award and maintain women's suffrage (1776)
  4. 10. Which US President in 1980 issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women's History Week?
  5. 11. The first American woman to receive a medical degree in 1849
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  1. 1. What is the color of National Women's Day?
  2. 3. She opened the first birth control clinic in 1916
  3. 4. She was arrested in 1872 in her hometown of Rochester NY for voting in violation of laws that allowed only men to vote.
  4. 5. First woman from MA to earn a college degree in 1847
  5. 7. Women competed in these field events for the first time in 1928
  6. 8. She was awarded the noble prize for Physics for the discovery of radioactivity (1903)