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niyad

(112,426 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 10:10 PM Apr 2013

today in women's herstory--29 april

April 29
This Day in Women's History




1789: Mary Singleton Copley Pelham died (born about 1710)

1867: Margherita Hamm born

1917: Maya Deren (Eleanora Derenkovskaya) born

1936 – April Stevens, American singer (Nino Tempo & April Stevens)

1937 – Jill Paton Walsh, English writer

1950 – Debbie Stabenow, American politician



1986: Funeral for the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, was attended by only 100 -- but the guests included the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Phillip, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and Princess Anne.


http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0429calendar.htm

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