today in women's herstory-18 december

[niyad]

December 18
This Day in Women's History


1075 – Edith of Wessex (b. 1025)

1591 – Marigje Arriens, Dutch suspected witch (b. 1520)

1774 - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia

1807: Phoebe Worrall Palmer born (religious writer, evangelist: Holiness movement)

1814: Josephine White Griffing born (reformer: women's rights, anti-slavery, freedman's relief)

1847 – Augusta Holmès, French composer (d. 1903)

1849 – Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (d. 1931)

1862: Barbara Frietschie died (see December 3)

1888 – Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971)

1908 – Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982)

1911 - Helen Vlachos, journalist

1913 - Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound)

1916 – Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)

1920 - Rita Streich, German singer

1923 - Lotti [Charlotte] van der Gaag, Dutch sculptor/painter

1926 - Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)

1931 – Alison Plowden, English historian and television script writer (d. 2007)

1934: Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of the Consumers' Division of the National Emergency Council (United States), died of complications after a fox hunting accident

1939 - Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer/actress/playwright

1945 - Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)

1949 - Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy)

1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Melbourne Aust, director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel)

1950 - Martha Johnson, Toronto Canada, rocker (M+M)

1951 - Candice Rialson, Santa Monica California, actress (Chatterbox)

1958 – Julia Wolfe, American composer

1959 - Barrie Chase, actress (Mardi Gras, Cape Fear)

1963 – Pauline Ester, French singer

1965 – Fawna MacLaren, American model and actress

1966 – Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress

1968 – Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress

1970 – Victoria Pratt, Canadian actress and model

1971 – Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist

1971 – Noriko Matsueda, Japanese video game composer

1971 – Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player

1971 – Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)

1972 – Rah Digga, American rapper and actress (The Conglomerate)

1973 – Leila Arcieri, American actress and model

1975 – Sia Furler. Australian singer-songwriter

1975 – Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress

1976 – Koyuki, Japanese actress and model

1976 - "A Star is Born", with Barbra Striesand, premieres

1976 - "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC

1978 – Katie Holmes, American actress

1978 – Naomi Lang, American ice dancer

1980 – Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1980 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (b. 1886)

18-19, 1981: First United States National Collegiate women's Volleyball championships held

1985 – Tara Conner, American model, Miss USA 2006

1985 – Natalie Gal, Russian-American model and actress

1985 – Hana Soukupová, Czech model

1987 – Ayaka, Japanese singer-songwriter

1987 – Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater

1987 – Sneha Ullal, Indian actress

1988 – Lizzie Armitstead, English cyclist

1989 – Emily Atack, English actress

1989 – Ashley Benson, American actress

1989 – Ashley Slanina-Davies, English actress

1990 – Sierra Kusterbeck, American singer-songwriter (VersaEmerge)

1990 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)

1992 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress and singer

2000 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)

2006 – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b. 1905)

2008 – Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (Star Trek) (b. 1932)

2010 – Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist, author, and scholar (b. 1913)

2010 – Tasso Kavadia, Greek actress (b. 1921)

2012 – Bessie Moody-Lawrence, American politician (b. 1941)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/12calendar/a/1218calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_18

http://www.historyorb.com/day/december/18

[Deep13]

1. Are these mostly birthdates? 12/18/and the year cited? nt

[niyad]

3. if it simply reads the year on the left side, with either nothing at the end, or parentheses with

d. plus a year., the first is the birthdate, the d. indicates year of death. if the parentheses has a b. plus the year, then the date to the left is the birth date.

Hope this clears up any questions.

[intaglio]

2. Edith of Wessex

A very scary and powerful lady