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'I'm most comfortable wearing slacks, and well, for a woman to come on the floor in trousers was viewed as a seismographic event.'

-- U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (right), recalling her 1st day in the chamber of the Senate, following her election in 1986. The Maryland Democrat's comment came in a CNN.com interview. The occasion?

When she is sworn in for a fifth term in January, Mikulski will become the longest serving woman in Senate history, breaking the 24-year record held by the late GOP Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.

On July 20, ...

... 1979, in Nicaragua, Sandinista rebels established a government, having overthrown the U.S.-backed government of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who'd sought refuge in the United States a few days earlier. The Sandinistas would hold power for a decade marked by armed opposition from U.S.-aided Contras. On the role of Nicaraguan women during this period -- among them poet Daisy Zamora (above), see the 2005 UNIFEM publication, Guerra NO: Mujeres en la Conquista de la Paz en Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua
... 1936, U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) was born in Baltimore.