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niyad

(113,587 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 11:58 AM Mar 2012

today in women's herstory

March 24
This Day in Women's History




1603: Queen Elizabeth I of England died

1820: Fanny Crosby born

1827: Candace Thurber Wheeler born

1899: Dorothy Constance Stratton born

1912: Dorothy Height born (activist)

1953: Queen Mary, consort of George V of Great Britain, and formerly known as Mary of Teck, died. (story) She was mother of Edward VIII and George VI, and grandmother of Elizabeth II.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0324calendar.htm


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