today in women's herstory-3 march
March 3
This Day in Women's History
1678 Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian rebel leader (d. 1747)
1778 Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1841)
1848 Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
1879 - 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1887: Anne Sullivan arrived at the home of young Helen Keller to begin to teach her to communicate
1893 Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter (d. 1998)
1894 Ethel Grandin, American actress (d. 1988)
1911: Jean Harlow born, american actress
1913 Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
1913 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1913: Woman suffrage supporters marched in Washington, D.C., disrupting the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Onlookers attacked while police stand by.
1924 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
1926 Lys Assia, Swiss singer
1928 Daphne Slater, English actress (d. 2012)
1929 Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)
1933 Margaret Fink, Australian film producer
1934 - Gia Scala, Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
1933 Lee Radziwill, American actress and author
1938 Patricia MacLachlan, AMerican children's author
1945 Hattie Winston, American actress
1947 Jennifer Warnes, American singer-songwriter and producer
1949 Bonnie Dunbar, American former astronaut
1949 Gloria Hendry, American actress
1949 - Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
1951 Lindsay Cooper, English bassoon player and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel, and Feminist Improvising Group) (d. 2013)
1956 Julia Glass, American novelist
1958 Miranda Richardson, English actress
1961 - Mary Page Keller, actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk)
1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American long jumper
1964 Laura Harring, Mexican-American actress
1966 Sophia Aliberti, Greek TV presenter and actress
1966 Heidi Swedberg, American actress and musician
1970 Julie Bowen, American actress
1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
1991 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
1996 Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)
2013 - A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0303calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3
http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/3