Good Morning! It is Monday October 20. In 1904 Eniola McMillan was born. She was an American educator, civil rights activist, and community leader and the first female national president of the NAACP.

Good Morning! It is Tuesday October 21. In 1929 Ursula LeGuin was born. She was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.

Good Morning! It is Wed Oct 22. In 1919 Doris Lessing was born. She was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She won the 2007 Nobel prize for literature. She was only the 11th woman to win the Nobel in its 106-year history, is best known for her 1962 masterpiece, The Golden Notebook

Good Morning! It is Thursday October 23. In 1905 Gertrude Ederle was born. She was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Good Morning! It is Fri October 24. In 1896 Marjorie Joyner was born. She was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent hair-wave machine

Good Morning! It is Saturday October 25. In 1840 Helen Blanchard, was born. She was an American inventor who received 28 patents between 1873 and 1915. She was known for her numerous inventions dealing with sewing machines and sewing technology.

Good Morning! It is Sunday October 26. In 1902 Henrietta Hill Swope was born. She was an American astronomer who studied variable stars. In particular, she measured the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid stars, which are bright variable stars.

Good Morning! It is Monday October 27. In 1910 Margaret Rousseau was born. She was an American chemical engineer who designed the first commercial penicillin production plant. She was the first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Good Morning! It is Tuesday October 28. In 1897 Edith Head was born. She was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history.

Good Morning! It is Wednesday October 29. In 1930 Omara Portuondo was born. She was a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians including Julio Gutiérrez, & J Márquez

Good Morning! It is Thursday October 30. In 1922 Marie van Brittan Brown was born. She was an African American nurse and innovator. In 1966, she invented a video home security system along with her husband, an electronics technician. A patent for the invention was granted.

Good Morning! It is Friday October 31. In 1860 Juliette Gordon Low was born. She was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group in 1911.

Good Morning! On this day, (Saturday) November 1 in 1915 Margaret Burroughs was born. She was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) November 2 in 1879 Marion Jones Farquhar was born. She was an American tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Championships. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.

Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) November 3 in 1905 Lois Mailou Jones was born. She was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and many more!

Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) November 4 in 1909 Evelyn Bryan Johnson was born. She was the female pilot with the highest number of flying hours in the world. She was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and a founding member of the Morristown, Tennessee Civil Air Patrol.

Good Morning! On this day, (Wed) Nov 5 in 1857 Ida Tarbell was born. She was an American writer, investigative journalist and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.

Good Morning! On this day, (Thurs) Nov. 6 in 1866 Ida Barney was born. She was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars. She was educated at Smith College and Yale. She was the 1952 recipient of the Annie J. Cannon Award

Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) November 7 in 1867 Marie Curie was born. She was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist renowned for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her work led to the discovery of polonium and radium