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March 8
This Day in Women's History


International Women's Day


415 – Hypatia of Alexandria, Neoplatonist philosopher and astronomer

1293 – Beatrice of Castile (d. 1359)

1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

1702 – Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)

1783: Hannah Hoes Van Buren born, wife of martin van buren

1824: Emily Elizabeth Parsons born (civil war nurse(

1828: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe born (philanthropist, art collector)

1856: Mary Wright Plummer born (librarian)

1857: women workers in New York City strike for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions

1884 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.

1886: Alice Throckmorton McLean born (social service organizer)

1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979)

1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975)

1897 – Margot Bryant, English actress (d. 1988)

1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)

1909 – Beatrice Shilling, British aeronautical engineer (d. 1990)

1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)

1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot

1911 - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian

1911 – International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.

1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).

1920 - Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)

1920 - Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)

1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)

1923: Lydia Rapoport born (educator, social worker)

1931 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87

1933 – Evelyn Ay Sempier, American model, Miss America 1954 (d. 2008)

1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer

1939 – Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballet dancer

1940 - Susan Clark, Sarnia Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster)

1943: Lynn Redgrave-Clark born (actor)

1945: Phyliss M Daley sworn in as navy ensign, the first black nurse to achieve that office

1945: first celebration of International Women's Day as such

1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter and painter

1948 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)

1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally&quot is condemned to prison for treason.

1950 - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)

1955 – Joellyn Auklandus, American author

1955 - Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82

1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist

1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress

1963 - Kathy Ireland, model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)

1964 – Kate Betts, American journalist

1965 – Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer

1968 – Ellen Forney, American cartoonist

1968 – Joanna Read, British theatre director and libettist

1970 – Andrea Parker, American actress and dancer

1972 – Angie Hart, Australian singer (Frente! and Splendid)

1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gathering)

1975 – Peggy Zina, Greek singer

1996 - Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45

1999 – Peggy Cass, American actress (b. 1924)

2008 – Carol Barnes, English journalist (b. 1944)

2013 – Ginny Wood, American environmentalist, co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society (b. 1917)

2014 – Wendy Hughes Australian actress (b. 1952)




http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0308calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/8

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1. Birthday of Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling, 1909

I posted two posts about her Saturday, her birthday.

Here:

Happy birthday, Tilly Shilling!

Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling was an aeronautical engineer who solved one of the more insidious flaws in British fighter plane design during the critical Battle of Britain. Her solution was simple, yet elegant. It saved lives.

It has been called Miss Shilling's Oriface and it's one of those regretably unsung advances which somehow never come to light except on international women's celebrations.

By the way, Tilly was also a motorcycle racer.

And word has it that she refused to marry a suitor until he beat her in a motorcycle race. That was her criteria, not his. One would surmise that the outcome was in question until it was finished.

There's a even a pub in Farnborough named after her.
The Tilly Shilling

So how cool is that?

I raise a glass to Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling.


And don't get me started about another WWII heroine engineer, Hedy Lamarr and her paper on spread spectrum. Yup, this Hedy Lamarr:


Please, not Hedley:


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