JUNE 15: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Ruth Cowan

Ruth Cowan, a journalist and one of the first women military correspondents, was born today in 1901.


Olga Erteszek

Olga Erteszek, a Polish immigrant, established the Olga Company in 1960, one of the first companies to offer employee profit sharing. She was born today in 1916.


Bessie Coleman

On June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman became not only the first African-American woman to earn an international aviation license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in France, but the first African-American woman in the world to earn an aviation pilot's license.