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March 11
This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis


222 – Julia Soaemias, Roman wife of Sextus Varius Marcellus (b. 180)

222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.

1198: Marie of France, Countess of Champagne died: daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France; full sister of Alix, Countess of Blois

1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

1829: Sarah Dolley born: physician and woman suffrage activist

1850 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)

1869: Beatrice Winser born: educator who opposed protective legislation for women

1872: Kathleen Clarice Groom born: writer

1893: Wanda Hazel Gág born: author, illustrator, known especially as author and illustrator of Millions of Cats and The ABC Bunny

1896: Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson born: writer using the name Pearl Rivers

1898: Dorothy Gish born: actress; sister of Lillian Gish

1903: Dorothy Schiff Thackery born: owner and publisher of the New York Post; philanthropist, reformer

1903: Der Wald,, an opera written by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, the first woman-written opera performed in the US

1907 - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)

1907 - Jessie Matthews, London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl)

1907 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)

1922: Madeline Houston McWhinnery born: founded the First Women's Bank in the United States

1923: Agatha Barbara born: President of Malta 1982-1987

1923: Louise Brough born: tennis player

1926 - Patricia Tindaole, England, architect

1935 – Sandra Milo, Tunisian-Italian actress

1939 – Lorraine Hunt, American politician, 32nd Lieutenant Governor of Nevada

1946: Patty Waters born: jazz singer

1951 – Dominique Sanda, French actress and model

1952: Susan Richardson born: actress

1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)

1954 – Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior

1955 – Leslie Cliff, Canadian swimmer

1955 – Nina Hagen, German singer-songwriter and actress

1956 – Helen Rollason, English sportscaster (d. 1999)

1957 – Cheryl Lynn, American singer-songwriter

1957 - Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Leningrad, Soviet Union, Chess Grandmaster, (d. 2012)

1958 – Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)

1961 – Claudine Mercier, Canadian singer and actress

1964 – Libba Bray, American author

1964 – Emma Chambers, English actress

1965 – Jenny Packham, English fashion designer

1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Liz and Lisa)

1970 – Delia Gallagher, American journalist

1972 – Ua, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Ajico)

1973 – Sylvia Day, Japanese-American romance author

1974 – Kieran Scott, American author

1978 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (b. 1910)

1981 – Heidi Cortez, American businesswoman and author

1982 – Thora Birch, American actress

1982 – Lindsey McKeon, American actress

1983 – Marietta Chrousala, Greek model and television host

1983 – Bianca Gonzalez, Filipino model and television host

1984 – Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress, and singer (Spin Aqua)

1993: Janet Reno was confirmed by the United States Senate as Attorney General; when sworn in the next day, she became the first woman to hold that office

1994: first ordination of women priests in the Church of England (the Church voted to ordain women on November 10, 1992)

1995 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)

2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

2010 – Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish geneticist (b. 1952)


http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0311calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11

http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/11