today in women's herstory-20 august

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August 20
This Day in Women's History

1613 – Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet and composer (d. 1676)

1643 – Anne Hutchinson, English spiritual adviser (b. 1591)

1841: Maria Pool born (writer)

1843: Kristina Nilsson born (soprano)

1868 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)

1904: Rose Hum Lee born (sociologist)

1906: Edna Flannery Kelly born (U.S. Congress)

1921: Jacqueline Susann born (novelist)

1927 – Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)

1946: Connie Chung born (broadcast journalist)

1958 – Patricia Rozema, Canadian director and screenwriter

1951 - Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1962 – Sophie Aldred, English actress

1974 – Amy Adams, American actress and singer

1982 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)

1992: British tabloid published "intimate photos" of the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, who separated earlier in the year from her husband, Prince Andrew ( story). The two later divorced, but then moved back in together for financial reasons and to share the upbringing of their children.

2001 – Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)

2007 – Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (b. 1920)

2008 – Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)

2012 - Phyllis Diller, American comedienne and actress, dies from natural causes at 95



http://womenshistory.about.com/od/08calendar/a/0820calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20

http://www.historyorb.com/day/august/20