today in women's herstory-21 march

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March 21
This Day in Women's History



1152: Marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Louis VII of France was annulled

1470/74: Angela Merici born: founded Order of Ursulines in 1535, canonized May 24, 1807

1617: Pocahontas (Mataoka) buried: born about 1595, died March 1617

1702 - Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament

1801: Maria Theresa of Austria born: named for the Empress Maria Theresa, her double great grandmother, she was Queen of Sardinia after she married

1857: Alice Henry born: journalist, women's suffrage activist, author: The Trade Union Woman; she was a member of the Women's Trade Union League

1866: Antonia Maury born: astronomer

1901 - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)

1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)

1920 – Evelina Haverfield Scottish nurse and activist (b. 1867)

1931 – Catherine Gibson, Scottish swimmer (d. 2013)

1937 – Ann Clwyd, Welsh politician

1939 – Kathleen Widdoes, American actress

1942 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (d. 1967)

1942 – Amina Claudine Myers, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1943: Cornelia Fort, military pilot, died when another plane on the same air ferry mission clipped her plane's wing, crashing her plane; she was the first female pilot in America to die on active duty, a member of the precurser of WASP

1944 – Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress

1944 – Janet Daley, American-born British journalist

1944 – Gaye Adegbalola, American singer and guitarist (Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women)

1945 – Rose Stone, American singer and keyboard player (Sly and the Family Stone)

1947 – Amanda Nevill, English arts administrator

1955 – Muriel Aked, English film actress (b. 1887)

1958 – Sabrina Le Beauf, American actress

1959 – Sarah Jane Morris, English singer-songwriter (The Happy End)

1962 – Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress

1962: Rosie O'Donnell born: comedian, actor, talk show personality

1968 – Samantha Dorman, American model and actress

1969: Radical group Redstockings organized a public hearing on abortion, called an abortion speak-out, to air women's views on abortion

1972: Equal Rights Amendment sent by Congress to the States for ratification.

1973 – Vanessa Branch, English-American model and actress

1973 – Ananda Lewis, American television host

1974 – Laura Allen, American actress

1976 – Rachael MacFarlane, American voice actress and singer

1978 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (d. 2007)

1978 – Joyce Jimenez, American-Filipino actress

1981 – Aysun Kayacı, Turkish model, actress, and presenter

1982 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player

1989 – Rochelle Humes, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Saturdays and S Club 8)

1990 – Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer (Monrose)

1992 – Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)

1994 - Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of Natl History

1998 – Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (b. 1910)

2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1924)

2011 – Loleatta Holloway, American singer-songwriter (The Caravans) (b. 1946)

2013 – Elsie Thompson, American super-centenarian (b. 1899)


http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0321calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/21