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niyad

(113,347 posts)
Fri Apr 6, 2012, 12:03 PM Apr 2012

today in women's herstory


April 6
This Day in Women's History


1801: Eliza Gurney born

1807: Jane Maria Eliza McManus Caneau born

1838: Kate Gannett Wells born

1863: Kate Macy Ladd born

1867: Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead born

1878: (Mary) Abastenia St. Leger Eberle born

1882: Rose Schneiderman born

1917: Jeannette Rankin voted against U.S. entry into World War I

1929: Martha Gallison Moore Avery born

1947: First Tony Awards presented, in honor of Antoinette Perry

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0406calendar.htm
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