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today in women's herstory
February 26
This Day in Women's History
1839: Sybil Ludington (married name: Sybil Ogden) died (Revolutionary War messenger, "female Paul Revere"
1858: Lavinia Lloyd Dock born
1859: Louise de Koven Bowen born
1871: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne died in England (author, artist, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the Peabody sisters)
1879: Mabel Dodge Luhan born
1950: Helen Clark born (Prime Minister, New Zealand)
1987: The Church of England's General Synod voted to support the ordination of women priests ( story)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/02calendar/a/0226calendar.htm