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today in women's herstory-7 july
July 7
This Day in Women's History
1851: Lillien Jane Martin born (psychologist)
1861: Nettie Stevens born (biologist, geneticist)
1862: Ella Reeve Ware Bloor born (radical reformer, journalist, investigator) - July 7 or 8?
1865: Mary Jenkins Surratt executed as a co-conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth
1867: Charlotte Whitney born (social worker, suffragist, radical)
1887: Beatrice Fox Auerbach born (businesswoman, philanthropist)
1901: Esther Brunauer born (international affairs expert, public official, target of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy)
1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized - first American saint
1972: Lisa Leslie-Lockwood born (basketball player, model, actress)
1980: Michelle Kwan born (Olympic figure skater)
1981: Sandra Day O'Connor nominated by President Reagan as Supreme Court Justice - the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court
1991: South Africa lifted restrictions against Winnie Mandela
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/07calendar/a/0707calendar.htm
