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The Senate passes the 19th Amendment with just two votes to spare: 56 to 25. Drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and first introduced in 1878, it is now sent to the states for ratification.
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The League of Women Voters is founded as "a mighty experiment" at the Victory Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago, Illinois.
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Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the Amendment. A young state legislator casts the deciding vote after being admonished to do so by his mother.
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The 19th Amendment is quietly signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, granting women the right to vote. Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt summarized the effort involved in securing passage of the 19th Amendment:
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American Birth Control League is founded by Margaret Sanger.
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Alice Paul proposes the Equal Rights Amendment, which is introduced in Congress every year after.
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Amelia Earhart makes the first transcontinental nonstop flight by a woman.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is inaugurated as the first woman governor in the United States.
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Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel. She is the first woman to do so, and she breaks all previously held records.
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Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor, as well as the first woman in the U.S. cabinet.
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Babe Didrikson pitches a full inning for the Philadelphia Athletics (vs. the Brooklyn Do
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Women's services are established by the military.
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Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
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Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the American civil rights movement.
