Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/November


 * 2 November 1938 – First woman awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova (pictured) was a Soviet aviator known as the "Russian Amelia Earhart" who helped found three female air regiments for World War II
 * 2 November 2004 – Theo van Gogh murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri over the movie Submission, written by the feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which attacked Koranic verses allowing the abuse of Muslim women.
 * 3 November 1793 – Guillotining of Olympe de Gouge, playwright and journalist who demanded equal rights for women during the French Revolution in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
 * 18 November 1872 – Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined for voting in a presidential election&mdash;a fine she refused to pay for the rest of her life
 * 28 November 1893 – Women voted for the first time in New Zealand