today in women's herstory-16 december

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December 16
This Day in Women's History

999: Adelaide died in Seltz, Alsace (ruler of Holy Roman Empire as regent for her grandson, Otto III)

1485: Catherine of Aragon born (first wife of Henry VIII of England, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabel of Castile and Aragon, mother of Mary I of England)

1717 – Elizabeth Carter, English poet (d. 1806)

1775 – Jane Austen, English novelist (d. 1817)

1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (d. 1855)

1843: Josephine Shaw Lowell born (reformer)

1844: Fanny Garrison Villard born (pacifist, suffragist, philanthropist; daughter of William Lloyd Garrison; helped establish Barnard College, Radcliffe College and Hampton Institute, Virginia)

1867 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (d. 1951)

1895 – Marie Hall Ets, American children's writer and illustrator (d. 1984)

1901: Margaret Mead born (anthropologist)

1907 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-American actress (d. 2011)

1916 – Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress

1917 – Ruth Johnson Colvin, American educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide

1918 – Vida Hope, English film actress (d. 1963)

1937 – Joyce Bulifant, American actress

1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother.

1938 – Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress

1941 – Lesley Stahl, American journalist

1945 – Patti Deutsch, American actress

1953 – Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actress and scriptwriter

2012 – 2012 Delhi gang rape: A 23-year-old woman is viciously gang raped on a bus in Delhi, India, sparking an international outcry.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/12calendar/a/1216calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16