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Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

(113,377 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:15 AM Mar 2013

today in women's herstory

March 6
This Day in Women's History

1791: Anna Claypoole Peale born

1858: Lilian Welsh born

1863: Belle Kearney born

1882: Sarah Wambaugh born

1886: Julia Evelina Smith died

1895: Camilla Collet died

1924: Sarah Caldwell born

1937: Valentina Tereshkova born

1973: Pearl Buck died

1980: Marguerite Yourcenar elected to the Academie Francoise.

1982: Ayn Rand died

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0306calendar.htm