A little shoutout for Women's History

1650 - Anne Bradstreet's book of poems, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, is published in England, making her the first published American woman writer.

1707 - Henrietta Johnston begins to work as a portrait artist in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina, making her the first known professional woman artist in America.

1767 - Anne Catherine Hoof Green takes over her late husband's printing and newspaper business, becoming the first American woman to run a print shop. The following year she is named the official printer for the colony of Maryland.

1792 - Suzanne Vaillande appears in The Bird Catcher, in New York, the first ballet presented in the U.S. She was also probably the first woman to work as a choreographer and set designer in the United States.

1795 - Anne Parrish establishes, in Philadelphia, the House of Industry, the first charitable organization for women in America.

1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell receives her M.D. degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y., becoming the first woman in the U.S. with a medical degree.

1864 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College.

1879 - Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

1914 - Mary Davenport-Engberg is the first woman to conduct a symphony orchestra, in Bellingham, Washington.

1916 - Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1921 - American novelist Edith Wharton becomes the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She wins the award for her novel The Age of Innocence.

1926 - American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1932 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.

1964 - Margaret Chase Smith, of Maine, becomes the first woman nominated for president of the United States by a major political party, at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, making her its first woman justice.

1983 - Dr. Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space

1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as U.S. Surgeon General, becoming the first woman (and first Hispanic) to hold that job.

2005 - Condoleezza Rice becomes the first African-American female Secretary of State.

2008 - Hillary Clinton wins the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, becoming the first woman in U.S. history to win a presidential primary contest.

2008 - Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, becomes the first woman to run for vice president on the Republican ticket.