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niyad

(113,048 posts)
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:49 AM Apr 2013

today in women's herstory


April 4
This Day in Women's History


527: Theodora becomes Empress of Byzantium

1802: Dorothea Dix born

1837: Abbie Park Ferguson born

1869: Anna Elizabeth Broomall admitted to Pennsylvania Hospital to study medicine

1872: Mary Coffin Ware Dennett born

1881: Maude Frazier born

1889: Dorothy Lerner Gordon born

1928: Maya Angelou born

1931: Anna Elizabeth Broomall died

1984: Authorities broke up the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (Berkshire, England) (story)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0404calendar.htm
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