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April 12, 2014
April 12
This Day in Women's History
1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1555 Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
1834: Harriet Burbank Rogers born (educator, pioneer in instruction for deaf)
1841: Jennie Maria Drinkwater born (author)
1844: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis born (poet and editor)
1866 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 Ella Gaunt Smith, Innovative American doll manufacturer (d. 1932)
1883: Imogen Cunningham born (photographer)
1898: Eleanor Touroff Glueck born (social worker, criminologist, studied juvenile offenders)
1904: Lily Pons born (sopranio, actress)
1908 Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
1912 Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
1917 Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1923 Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2004)
1929 Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1935 Wendy Savage, English gynaecologist and campaigner
1944 Lisa Jardine, English historian
1948 Lois Reeves, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1961 Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance)
1961 Magda Szubanski, English-Australian actress
1963 Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist
1964 Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1967 Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter (Saint Etienne)
1968 Alicia Coppola, American actress
1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, and director
1973 Claudia Jordan, American model and actress
1973 Christina Moore, American actress
1974 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1974 Marley Shelton, American actress
1975 Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1906)
1977 Sarah Jane Morris, American actress
1977 Jordana Spiro, American actress
1979 Claire Danes, American actress
1979 Jennifer Morrison, American actress and producer
1979 Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
1985 Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress
1985 Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter (Serebro)
1985 Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and Hangry & Angry)
1986 Lorena, Spanish singer
1988 Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
1989 Kaitlyn Weaver, Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 Francesca Halsall, English swimmer
1993 Katelyn Pippy, American actress
1994 Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress
1994 Saoirse Ronan, American-Irish actress
1994 Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer (Aa!, Cute, and Buono!)
1996 Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast
2000 Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
2002 A female suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2008 Cecilia Colledge, English figure skater (b. 1920)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0412calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12
http://www.historyorb.com/events/april/12
today in women's herstory-12 april
April 12
This Day in Women's History
1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1555 Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
1834: Harriet Burbank Rogers born (educator, pioneer in instruction for deaf)
1841: Jennie Maria Drinkwater born (author)
1844: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis born (poet and editor)
1866 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 Ella Gaunt Smith, Innovative American doll manufacturer (d. 1932)
1883: Imogen Cunningham born (photographer)
1898: Eleanor Touroff Glueck born (social worker, criminologist, studied juvenile offenders)
1904: Lily Pons born (sopranio, actress)
1908 Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
1912 Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
1917 Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1923 Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2004)
1929 Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1935 Wendy Savage, English gynaecologist and campaigner
1944 Lisa Jardine, English historian
1948 Lois Reeves, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1961 Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance)
1961 Magda Szubanski, English-Australian actress
1963 Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist
1964 Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1967 Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter (Saint Etienne)
1968 Alicia Coppola, American actress
1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, and director
1973 Claudia Jordan, American model and actress
1973 Christina Moore, American actress
1974 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1974 Marley Shelton, American actress
1975 Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1906)
1977 Sarah Jane Morris, American actress
1977 Jordana Spiro, American actress
1979 Claire Danes, American actress
1979 Jennifer Morrison, American actress and producer
1979 Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
1985 Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress
1985 Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter (Serebro)
1985 Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and Hangry & Angry)
1986 Lorena, Spanish singer
1988 Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
1989 Kaitlyn Weaver, Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 Francesca Halsall, English swimmer
1993 Katelyn Pippy, American actress
1994 Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress
1994 Saoirse Ronan, American-Irish actress
1994 Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer (Aa!, Cute, and Buono!)
1996 Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast
2000 Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
2002 A female suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2008 Cecilia Colledge, English figure skater (b. 1920)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0412calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12
http://www.historyorb.com/events/april/12
April 6, 2014
April 5
This Day in Women's History
1170 Isabella of Hainault (d. 1190)
1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1566 - 200 Brussels nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1693 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627)
1758: Mary Jemison ("White Woman of the Genesee" captured by French soldiers and Shawnee Indians, later sold to the Senecas who adopted her
1761: Sybil Ludington born, female "paul revere" (rode twice as far!) and revolutionary war
messenger
1825: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes born (author of 39 novels and numerous short stories)
1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
1871 (or 75) - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue) (1956)
1873: Nellie Neilson born (medievalist)
1876: Mary Elizabeth Bass born (one of first female physicians on tulane medical school staff)
1885?: Fania (or Fannia or Fanny) Mary Cohn born (pioneer in worker education, labor movement)
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1890 - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1899 Elsie Thompson, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1901: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander born (pediatrician, microbiologist, one of the first to study antibiotic resistance)
1908 - (Ruth Elizabeth) Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, US actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel) (d. 1989)
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
1916 - Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn [Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith], British Labour politician
1921 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1922 - Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (d. 2009)
1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1933 Barbara Holland, American author (d. 2010)
1938 Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
1940 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1944 - Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1946 - Jane Asher, actress (Deep End) and girlfriend of Paul McCartney
1946 - Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1947 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Filipino politician, 14th President of the Philippines
1949 Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986 (challenger disaster)
1950 Ann C. Crispin, American author (d. 2013)
1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (ABBA)
1950 - Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
1955 Janice Long, English radio host
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 Dame Susan Catherine (Suzi) Leather, British public administrator
1958 - Cammie Lusko, Los Angeles California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1961 Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 Princess Erika, French singer-songwriter and actress
1968 Gianna Amore, American model and actress
1968 Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter
1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1971 Krista Allen, American actress
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
1975 Sarah Baldock, English organist and choral conductor.
1975 Caitlin Moran, English broadcaster and newspaper columnist
1977 Stella Creasy, English politician
1980 Mary Katharine Ham, American journalist
1982 Hayley Atwell, English actress
1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1986 Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
1989 María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran educator (b. 1938)
1989: March for Women's Lives held in DC (over 600,000 in attendance)
1990 Sophia Papamichalopoulou, Cypriot skier
1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
1999 Sharlene San Pedro, Filipino actress
2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish author (b. 1923)
2007 Leela Majumdar, Indian author (b. 1908)
2013 Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0405calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5
http://www.historyorb.com/day/april/5
today in women's herstory-5 april
April 5
This Day in Women's History
1170 Isabella of Hainault (d. 1190)
1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1566 - 200 Brussels nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1693 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627)
1758: Mary Jemison ("White Woman of the Genesee" captured by French soldiers and Shawnee Indians, later sold to the Senecas who adopted her
1761: Sybil Ludington born, female "paul revere" (rode twice as far!) and revolutionary war
messenger
1825: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes born (author of 39 novels and numerous short stories)
1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
1871 (or 75) - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue) (1956)
1873: Nellie Neilson born (medievalist)
1876: Mary Elizabeth Bass born (one of first female physicians on tulane medical school staff)
1885?: Fania (or Fannia or Fanny) Mary Cohn born (pioneer in worker education, labor movement)
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1890 - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1899 Elsie Thompson, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1901: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander born (pediatrician, microbiologist, one of the first to study antibiotic resistance)
1908 - (Ruth Elizabeth) Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, US actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel) (d. 1989)
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
1916 - Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn [Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith], British Labour politician
1921 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1922 - Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (d. 2009)
1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1933 Barbara Holland, American author (d. 2010)
1938 Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
1940 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1944 - Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1946 - Jane Asher, actress (Deep End) and girlfriend of Paul McCartney
1946 - Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1947 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Filipino politician, 14th President of the Philippines
1949 Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986 (challenger disaster)
1950 Ann C. Crispin, American author (d. 2013)
1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (ABBA)
1950 - Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
1955 Janice Long, English radio host
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 Dame Susan Catherine (Suzi) Leather, British public administrator
1958 - Cammie Lusko, Los Angeles California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1961 Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 Princess Erika, French singer-songwriter and actress
1968 Gianna Amore, American model and actress
1968 Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter
1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1971 Krista Allen, American actress
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
1975 Sarah Baldock, English organist and choral conductor.
1975 Caitlin Moran, English broadcaster and newspaper columnist
1977 Stella Creasy, English politician
1980 Mary Katharine Ham, American journalist
1982 Hayley Atwell, English actress
1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1986 Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
1989 María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran educator (b. 1938)
1989: March for Women's Lives held in DC (over 600,000 in attendance)
1990 Sophia Papamichalopoulou, Cypriot skier
1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
1999 Sharlene San Pedro, Filipino actress
2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish author (b. 1923)
2007 Leela Majumdar, Indian author (b. 1908)
2013 Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0405calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5
http://www.historyorb.com/day/april/5
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