Tennis player, promoter, and women's advocate Gladys Heldman released the first issue of "World Tennis Magazine."

Mayyim Hayyim, a progressive community mikveh and education center in Newton, Massachusetts, opened its doors.

Jennifer Gorovitz became CEO of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation, making her the first female CEO of a major Jewish federation.

In 1902, Jewish women on the Lower East Side organized a massive boycott of the kosher beef industry, demanding lower prices.

Angela Warnick Buchdahl was invested as the first Asian American cantor. Two years later, she became the first Asian American rabbi.

Birth of Yiddish theatre star Bertha Kalich.

Lily Winner published an essay titled "American Emigrés" arguing for open immigration to the United States in "The Nation."

Veteran journalist Jane Eisner was appointed to be the first female editor of the "Forward."

Sandy Sasso became ordained as the first female Reconstructionist rabbi by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia.