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This Week in History

October 7—October 13

1889

Opening of Barnard College

October 7

1892

Construction begins on Denver hospital inspired by Frances Wisebart Jacobs

October 9

1980

Opening of Goldie Hawn's "Private Benjamin"

October 10

1927

Founding of Women's American ORT

October 12

1891

Birth of Judge Jennie Loitman Barron

October 13

1986

Rita Levi-Montalcini Wins the Nobel Prize

October 13

2009

Torah scribe Julie Seltzer begins work on a Sefer Torah

October 8

1991

Nina Totenberg’s Journalism Ignites the Anita Hill Hearings

October 11

2008

Tsega Melaku Becomes the First Woman and the First Ethiopian Director of Reshet Aleph, an Israel Broadcasting Authority Radio Channel

October 12

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