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Posted by bean | March 15th, 2004

March 15

1848: From documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. 71st session, vol. 5, document 129. Albany, 1848: “On March 15, 1848, four months prior to the first woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, forty-four women of Genesee and Wyoming County declared to the New York State Assembly that they owed no allegiance to the government since they were deprived of their political rights. Their petition states: `When women are allowed the privileges of rational and accountable beings, it will be soon be enough to expect from them the duties of such.’”

1901: (A First) Dita Hopkins Kinney appointed first superintendent of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.

1933: (Birthday) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, born in Brooklyn, New York.

1937: (A First) The first contraceptive clinic is set up for poor women in North Carolina.

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