today in women's herstory-15 january

[niyad]

January 15
This Day in Women's History


1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

1781 – Mariana Victoria of Spain (b. 1718)

1803 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish poet (d. 1811)

1809: Cornelia Augusta Connelly born

1810: Abigail (Abby) Kelley Foster born

1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1761)

1816 – Marie Lafarge, French murderer (d. 1852)

1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtier (d. 1847)

1836: Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie born

1842 – Mary MacKillop, Australian saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (d. 1909)

1845 - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)

1850: Sonya (Sofya) Kovalevskaya born (mathematician)

1860: Katharine Bement (Davis) born

1862: Loie Fuller born

1864 - Frances Benjamin Johnston, Grafton West Virginia, early female photographer

1876 – Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)

1878 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (d. 1941)

1882 – Princess Margaret of Connaught, British-Swedish princess (d. 1920)

1893 – Fanny Kemble, English-American actress and author (b. 1809)

1894 – Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romanian soldier (d. 1917)

1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became America's first Greek-letter organization established by African-American college women.

1913 – Miriam Hyde, Australian composer and pianist (d. 2005)

1915: Fannie Farmer died: cookbook author, "domestic scientist"

1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.

1919 – Rosa Luxemburg, German theorist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1871)

1923 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan Tamil singer and actress (d. 1978)

1925 – Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist

1926 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (d. 2005)

1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996)

1927 – Phyllis Coates, American actress

1929 - "Queen Ida" Guillory, Zydeco music. accordion player

1929 - Eva Badura-Skoda, composer

1933 – A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.

1933 – Patricia Blair, American actress (d. 2013)

1937 – Margaret O'Brien, American actress

1942 – Barbara Tarbuck, American actress

1943 – Margaret Beckett, English politician

1944 – Jenny Nimmo, English author

1945 – Princess Michael of Kent, German-British interior designer and author

1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The "Black Dahlia&quot is found in Los Angeles' Leimert Park.

1947 – Mary Hogg, English lawyer and judge

1947 – Andrea Martin, American-Canadian actress

1951 - Charo [Maria Baeza], Spanish-American actress, comedienne and flamenco guitarist (Chico and the Man, Love Boat)

1951 - Martha Davis, California, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame)

1951 – Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.

1964 – Susan Collins, English artist and academic

1968: Jeannette Rankin Brigade -- over 5,000 women -- marched on Washington, DC, protesting the Vietnam War

1971 – Regina King, American actress

1972 – Claudia Winkleman, English journalist

1972 – Daisy Ashford, English author (b. 1881)

1974 – Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio host

1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford

1978 - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy

1990 – Peggy van Praagh, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1910)

1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.

1995 – Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (b. 1901)

1997: Princess Diana spoke out for an international ban on anti-personnel landmines, countering British government policy and triggering angry responses

1999 – Betty Box, English film producer (b. 1915)

2000 – Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)

2003 – Doris Fisher, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)

2004 – Olivia Goldsmith, American author (b. 1949)

2005 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)

2005 – Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)

2005 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)

2007 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino diplomat, writer (b. 1905)

2013 – Princess Margarita of Baden (b. 1932)



http://womenshistory.about.com/od/01calendar/a/0115calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15

http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan15.htm

http://www.historyorb.com/events/january/15

[niyad]

1. some charo guitar videos