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Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

(113,315 posts) Fri Feb 22, 2013, 01:31 PM Feb 2013

today in women's herstory

February 22
This Day in Women's History

1822: Isabella Beecher Hooker born

1838: Margaret Munson Sangster born

1848: Annie LePorte Diggs born

1892: Edna St. Vincent Millay born

1955: Maureen Connolly retired from tennis after a horse-riding accident

1972: Claudie Pechstein born (Olympic speed skater)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/02calendar/a/0222calendar.htm