This month, we're celebrating the birthdays of the following women:

• Susanna Salter, politician and first woman to be elected mayor in the United States (March 2)

• Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a track and field athlete and Sports Illustrated's best female athlete of the 20th century (March 3)

• Geraldyn (Jerrie) Cobb, an aviator and the first woman to pass astronaut testing (March 5)

• Josephine Cochrane, inventor who invented the first commercially successful dishwashing machine (March 8)

• Graciela Olivarez, a lawyer who was the first woman and the first Latina to graduate from Notre Dame Law School (March 9)

• Clare Boothe Luce, congresswoman from California who became the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad (March 10)

• Tammy Duckworth, a U.S. Army veteran and U.S. Senator who was the first woman with a disability to be elected to Congress, the first Thai American woman to be elected to Congress, and the first senator to give birth while in office (March 12)

• Simone Biles, the most decorated American gymnast (March 14)

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman of five to ever serve on the Supreme Court (March 15)

• Verda Welcome, politician who was the second Black woman to be elected to a state senate in the U.S. (March 18)

• Edith Nourse Rogers, politician who was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts (March 19)

• Loretta Mary Aiken (stage name of Jackie "Moms" Mabley), a stand-up comedian and one of the first openly gay stand-up comedians (March 19)

• Mary Kies, inventor and the first woman to receive a U.S. patent (March 21)

• Helene Hale, politician and the first woman to serve as a mayor in Hawaii (March 23)

• Dorothy Height, a civil rights and women's rights activist who served as president of the National Council of Negro Women (March 24)

• Dorothy Constance Stratton, the first woman to be commissioned an officer in U.S. Coast Guard and the first director of the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve during World War II (March 24)

• Flannery O'Connor, a novelist (March 25)

• Nancy Pelosi, congresswoman from California and the first woman in U.S. history to be Speaker of the House (March 26)

• Sandra Day O'Connor, a Supreme Court Justice and the first woman of five to ever serve on the Court (March 26)

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