04-10 TABLE of CONTENTS: DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS QUOTES by . The complete episode for this date... ...will be published here soon. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | 04-10 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS B. 04-10-1850, Fanny Davenport, English actress and manager of her own theater company. Event: 04-10-1862, the New York State legislature (while people's attention was centered on the Civil War) took away a mother's right of equal guardianship over her children and the control of minor children's person and property on the husband's death that had been granted for the first time in history a few years before. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had campaigned for the reform, succeeded in having it reinstated soon afterwards. B. 04-10-1880, Francis Perkins, first woman member of a U.S. Presidential cabinet, was secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt 1933-45. Attempts to impeach her were thinly disguised disgruntles that the job should have gone to a man. Event: 04-10-1960, Women are ordained as pastors in Sweden's Evangelical Lutheran Church for the first time in the Church's history. Event: 04-10-1970, New York State legislature passed into law unrestricted abortion rights during the first six months of pregnancy. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | QUOTES DU JOUR Coming soon... your patience is appreciated. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE |