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March 1
This Day in Women's History



752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.

Ancient Rome: celebration of the Matronalia Festival, a feast of Juno

Also in Rome: annual Temple of Vesta ritual: put out the fire and then relight it

1432 – Isabella of Coimbra, Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1455)

1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland (d. 1737)

1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

1844: Lillian M. N. Stevens born

1864 - Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree

1872: Bertha Haven Putman born

1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.

1882 - Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)

1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1968)

1895 – Pauline Musters, Dutch shortest woman (b. 1876)

1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress (d. 2000)

1906 – Camilla Spira, German actress (d. 1997)

1911 – Rina Ketty, Italian-French singer (d. 1996)

1912 - Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC

1918 – Gladys Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)

1923 - Bonita Granville, actress/producer (Perry Mason)

1926: Marietta Holley died

1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)

1935 - Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)

1936 – Monique Bégin, Italian-Canadian politician, academic

1946 – Lana Wood, American actress and producer

1948 – Alison Richard, English anthropologist and university administrator

1952 – Nevada Barr, American author

1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician, (operated on herself at south pole) (d. 2009)

1953 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open

1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress

1954 – Mare Teichmann, Estonian psychologist

1956 – Helen Boaden, English broadcasting executive, head of BBC Radio

1956 – Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 6th President of Lithuania

1961 - Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall

1965 – Mary Lou Lord, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Helium)

1966 – Susan Auch, Canadian speed skater

1967 – Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian runner

1970 – Lucille Hegamin, American singer (b. 1894)

1975 – Maya Kulenovic, Canadian painter

1977 – Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and model

1978 – Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress

1979 – Éowyn, American singer-songwriter

1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)

1981 – Ana Hickmann, Brazilian model

1982 – Kim Min-hee, South Korean actress and model

1983 – Elán, Mexican singer-songwriter

1984 – Naima Mora, American model

2013 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (b. 1944)

2013 – Gaynelle Griffin Jones, American jurist (b. 1948)



http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0301calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/1