April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
April 22 – The Lambda chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.[citation needed]
October 3 –Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator, when the governor of Georgia gives her a temporary appointment, pending the election of a replacement for Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly. She will not take office till November 21, and will thus serve for only one day.
October 5 –Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society is founded by six nursing students at the Indiana Training School for Nurses (Now Indiana University School of Nursing) in Indianapolis, Indiana.[6]
November 12 –Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Earliest known example of gospel song "This Train (is Bound for Glory)", a recording by Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette, under the title "Dis Train".[7]
December 28 –Stan Lee, comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and president and chairman of Marvel Comics (d. 2018)[42]
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↑ "Helen Gurley Brown". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. August 14, 2012. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
↑ Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation, University Press of Mississippi, 2010, p. 113
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