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today in women's herstory-20 may
May 20
This Day in Women's History
1536: Jane Seymour betrothed to King Henry VIII of England, one day after his second wife, Anne Boleyn, was executed for treason. Henry and Jane were married on May 30, 1536.
1768: Dolley Payne Todd Madison born (First Lady)
1825: Antoinette Brown Blackwell born (minister)
1851: Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop (Rose Hawthorne Lathrop) born (writer, religious)
1856: Helen Hopekirk born (musician)
1894: Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns born (journalist, writer)
1901: Doris Fleeson born (reporter)
1932: Amelia Earhart's first solo Atlantic flight
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/05calendar/a/0520calendar.htm