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The Food and Drug Administation apporved the first oral contraceptive known as "the pill" for birth control in the U.S.
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Women Strike for Peace, founded by Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson, drew 50,000 women nationwide to protest nuclear weapons and U.S. involvement in war in southeast Asia.
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The equal pay act of 1963 was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy.
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Valentina Tereshkova Bcame this first women in outer space, another soviet first in the USSR "space race"
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U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including the Title VII prohibition of discrimination based on sex by private employers including employment agencies and unions.
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The Newark Museum exhibit "Women Artists of America: 1707-1964" looked at women's art, often neglected in the art world.
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The feminist group New York Radical Women formed in New York City.
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The EEOC ruled that being female was not a bona fide occupational qualification of being a flight attendant.
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The "Miss America Protest" by New York Radical Women at the Miss America pageant brought widespread media attention to women's liberation.
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NOW formed a special committee to launch a major campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment and Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
