today in women's herstory-7 june
June 7
This Day in Women's History
421: Aelia Eudocia married the Emperor Theodosius II at Constantinopole
1394: Anne of Bohemia died: queen consort of Richard II of England
1662: Celia Fiennes born: travel writer
1757: Georgia Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, born: social and political figure, subject of Gainsborough painting involved in notorious theft in 1876; aunt of Lady Caroline Lamb, ancestor of Sarah (1959 - ), Duchess of York, and great-great-grandaunt of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961 - 1997)
1813?: Cornelia Wells Walter born: journalist
1831: Amelia Edwards born: Egyptologist, writer
1840: only daughter of Leopold I of Belgium born, later to become the Empress Carlotta (Carlota) of Mexico
1843: Susan Elizabeth Blow born: educator, kindergarten educator
1861: Alice Hubbard born: writer, freethinker; died in the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
1870 (or 1868 or 1876): Alice Nielsen born: singer
1876: Anna Oliver received B.D. from the Boston University of Theology, the first US woman to receive such a degree
1876: Alice Nelsen born: singer who founded an opera company
1896: Vivien Kellems born: industrialist
1899: Maude Elizabeth Frazier Kee born: served as member of US House of Representatives from West Virginia, 1951 - 1965
1899: Elizabeth Bowen born: writer
1899: Carrie Nation shut down a saloon in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, beginning her well-publicized career as a saloon-smasher in the name of temperance
1909: Virginia Apgar born: physician, originator of the Apgar Score System for newborns
1909: Jessica Tandy born: actress
1909: Mary Pickford appears in her first film
1917: Gwendolyn Brooks born: poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, Poet Laureate of Illinois (1968)
1921: Dorothy Ruth born: daughter of Babe Ruth who discovered at age 59 that Helen Ruth, wife of Babe Ruth, was not her real mother; her mother was Juanita Jennings, a mistress of Babe Ruth
1937: Jean Harlow died, age 26, of renal failure: actress, "blond bombshell"
1943: Nikki Giovani born: writer, educator, activist
1954: Louise Erdrich born: writer
1962: Janice Lawrence Braxton born: basketball player, coach
1965: Judy Holliday died, age 43, of breast cancer: actress who won Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Born Yesterday and who was blacklisted from radio and television (but not film) in the 1950s
1967: Dorothy Parker died: poet, writer, wit
1968: Women sewing machinists at Ford Motor Co. in Daganham, Essex, walked out, leading eventually to the 1970 Equal Pay Act: The 1968 Dagenham Women's Strike
1977: Queen Elizabeth II celebrated Silver Jubilee
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