today in women's herstory
September 27
This Day in Women's History
1657: Sophia, regent of Russia, born
1760: Anne Wager opened a school for African American free and slave children in Virginia
1772: Martha Jefferson Randolph born (daughter of Thomas Jefferson, wife of a U.S. Congressman)
1841: Annie Aubertine (Woodward Moore) born (writer, musician, translator; pen name "Auber Forestier"
1874: Myrtle Reed born (writer)
1886: Minne Vautrin born (missionary, educator)
1939: Kathy Whitworth (Kathryne Anne Whitworth) born (golfer)
1944: Aimee Semple McPherson died of an overdose of sleeping pills (evangelist)
1953: Diane Abbott born (first woman of African descent elected to the British Parliament)
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