It's already September!  This year is flying by.  Fall term has started, my first as a full time student, and it's gonna be busy.  Here are some important dates in September (and I'm claiming that they are Jane Austen approved), provided by the National Women's History Project:

Sept 12, 1910 - Alice Stebbins Wells, a former social worker, becomes the first woman police officer with arrest powers in US (Los Angeles, CA)


Sept 14, 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

Sept 14, 1975 - Elizabeth Ann Seton is canonized. She is the first American-born saint, and founded the first U.S. Order of Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph

Sept 20, 1973 - Billie Jean King defeats Bobby "No broad can beat me" Riggs in the battle of the sexes tennis match

Sept 25, 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice

Sept 26, 1971 - Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-New York) announces she will enter the Democratic presidential primaries

Sept 26, 1973 - Capt. Lorraine Potter, an American Baptist minister, is the first woman U.S. Air Force chaplain

Sept 29, 1988 - Stacy Allison becomes first U.S. woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest

and a birthday to celebrate:

Sept 23, 1838 (1927) - Victoria Woodhull, feminist, first woman candidate for U.S. President (1872) for the Equal Rights Party; with sister, first women to be members of the NY Stock Exchange (1870's).

She's my hero.