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today in women's herstory
March 27
This Day in Women's History
1482: Mary of Burgundy died of a fall from her horse
1712: Jane Franklin Mecom born
1724: Jane Colden born
1824: Virginia Louisa Minor born
1830: Frances Dickinson died (co-founder of the first Roman Catholic convent in the United States)
1858: Florence Finch Kelly born
1867: Edyth Walker born
1868: Patty Smith Hill born ( Happy birthday to you!)
1878: Edith Isaacs born
1880: Ruth Hana McCormick Simms born
1912: Two Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac River in Washington, DC, by First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of the Japanese ambassador, Viscountess Chinda; the idea was a fulfillment of a long campaign by photographer and travel writer Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore.
1924: Sarah Lois Vaughan born
1945: Anna Mae Aquash born
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0327calendar.htm