JUNE 25: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Marie Curie
Today in 1903, Marie Curie defends her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor, a US Supreme Court Justice, was born today in 1954. She has the distinction of being the third female Justice and first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Latina.