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niyad

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Sat Feb 2, 2013, 12:16 AM Feb 2013

today in women's herstory

February 1
This Day in Women's History


1587: Elizabeth I of England signed the execution warrant for her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots (she was executed on February 8)

1857: Lucy Wheelock born

1862: Lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe) published in The Atlantic Monthly

1878: Hattie Caraway born

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/02calendar/a/0201calendar.htm

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