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Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

(113,259 posts) Sat Jun 8, 2013, 12:03 PM Jun 2013

today in women's herstory-8 june

June 8
This Day in Women's History

1816: Mary Lucinda Bonney born (educator, activist for Native American rights)

1831: Sarah Siddons died (actress)

1847: Ida Saxton McKinley born (First Lady)

1858: Charlotte Angas Scott born (mathematician)

1860: Alicia Boole Stott born (mathematician)

1893: Dorothy Deming born (author)

1903: Jessie Bernard born (sociologist)

1906: Margaret Rawlings born (actor)

1907: Billie Pierce born (blues artist, pianist)

1925: Barbara Pierce Bush born (First Lady)

1937: Joan Rivers born (actress)

1947: Sara Paretsky born (author)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/06calendar/a/0608calendar.htm