MAY 30: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Maria Teresa Babin
Maria Teresa Babin, Puerto Rican writer, poet, literary critic, and educator, was born today in 1910. Among her best-known works is Panorama de la Cultura Puertorriqueña and several essays on Federico García Lorca.
Christine Jorgensen was an American transgender woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery. She told her story to the press for a fee and later developed a nightclub act. She was born today in 1926.