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today in women's herstory
March 7
This Day in Women's History
203: Perpetua died (March 7 celebrated as her Feast Day in Carthage)
1578: Margaret Douglas died (mother of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, and grandmother of King James VI of Scotland, King James I of England)
1729: Henrietta Johnston died
1857: Laura Whitfield Carnegie born
1869: Abby Lillian Marlatt born
1875: Mary Norton born
1893: Lorena A. Hickok born
1908: Anna Magnani born
1938: Janet Guthrie born
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0307calendar.htm