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niyad

(113,259 posts)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:49 PM Apr 2013

today in women's herstory-20 april


April 20
This Day in Women's History


1795: Cynthia Farrar born

1894: Caroline Beaumont Zuchry born

1902: Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride

1914: 19 women, children and men die in Ludlow massacre

1939: Billie Holiday records first civil rights song, "Strange Fruit"

2008: Danika Patrick first woman to win Indy race

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0420calendar.htm
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