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today in women's herstory--18 june
June 18
This Day in Women's History
918: Death of Aethelflaed, Mercian leader
1811: Frances Sargent Locke Osgood born (writer, poet)
1822: Julia Anna Turnbull born (ballerina)
1862: Carolyn Wells born (writer)
1865: Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstrom born (writer)
1900: Laura Z. Hobson born (writer)
1901: Anastasia born (daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra)
1901: Jeanette Macdonald born (singer, actress)
1906: Maria Goeppert-Mayer born (physicist, Nobel Prize winner)
1913: Sylvia Field Porter born (economist, journalist)
1935: Tenley Albright born (Olympic figure skating medalist)
1983: Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman astronaut in space
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/06calendar/a/0618calendar.htm
