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March 13
This Day in Women's History
963: Anna born - her marriage to Vladimir of Kiev led to the Christianization of Russia
1753 Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, French wife of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1821)
1762 Anine Frölich, Danish ballerina (d. 1784)
1767: Marie Josepha of Saxony died: Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI who was killed during the French Revolution; daughter of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and Maria Josepha of Austria; also a second cousin of her own daughter-in-law, Marie Antoinette
1798 Abigail Fillmore, American wife of Millard Fillmore, 14th First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
1813: Jane Hitchcock Jones born: abolitionist newspaper editor
1875 - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1882: Bertha Mahony Miller born: pioneer of publishing for children; founder of Horn Book Magazine and Horn Book publishing company
1892: Janet Flanner born: writer and journalist
1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer
1906 - Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
1907 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne
1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1916: Lindy Boggs (Marie Morrison Claiborne Boggs) born: politician, first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, member of the House of Representatives 1973 - 1991; mother of Cokie Roberts, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. and Barbara Boggs Sigmund
1918 - Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime.
1925 Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1928 Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)
1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1935 Leslie Parrish, American actress
1936 Nana Meskhidze, Georgian painter (d. 1997)
1938 Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1939 Marion Foale, English fashion designer
1940 Jacqueline Sassard, French actress
1940 Candi Staton, American singer
1941 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (b. 1881)
1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1947 Lesley Collier, English ballet dancer
1949 Sian Elias, New Zealand politician, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand
1949 Julia Migenes, American soprano and actress
1949 Emmy Verhey, Dutch violinist
1953 Nicola Davies, Welsh British High Court judge
1953 Deborah Raffin, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
1954 Valerie Amos, Guyanan British politician and UN Under-Secretary
1954 Robin Duke, Canadian actress
1955 Glenne Headly, American actress
1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
1955 - Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
1956 Dana Delany, American actress and producer
1957 - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1958 Linda Robson, English actress
1959 Kathy Hilton, American actress and fashion designer
1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1964: Kitty Genovese murdered in New York City while neighbors watched without acting; this incident triggered psychological research into the "bystander effect"
1965 Gigi Rice, American actress
1971 Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 Tracy Wells, American actress
1975 - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
1977 - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
1980 Flavia Cacace, Italian dancer
1980 Molly Stanton, American actress
1981 Toccara Jones, American model and actress
1995 Odette Hallowes, French-English nurse and agent (b. 1912)
1995 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
1996 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85
1997: Sister Nirmala chosen as successor to Mother Teresa to head missionary work in India
2006 Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2009 Betsy Blair, American-English actress (b. 1923)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0313calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13
http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/13
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/mar13.htm
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