today in women's herstory-3 march

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March 3
This Day in Women's History


1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian rebel leader (d. 1747)

1778 – Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1841)

1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)

1879 - 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

1887: Anne Sullivan arrived at the home of young Helen Keller to begin to teach her to communicate

1893 – Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter (d. 1998)

1894 – Ethel Grandin, American actress (d. 1988)

1911: Jean Harlow born, american actress

1913 – Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)

1913 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC

1913: Woman suffrage supporters marched in Washington, D.C., disrupting the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Onlookers attacked while police stand by.

1924 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)

1926 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer

1928 – Daphne Slater, English actress (d. 2012)

1929 – Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)

1933 – Margaret Fink, Australian film producer

1934 - Gia Scala, Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)

1933 – Lee Radziwill, American actress and author

1938 – Patricia MacLachlan, AMerican children's author

1945 – Hattie Winston, American actress

1947 – Jennifer Warnes, American singer-songwriter and producer

1949 – Bonnie Dunbar, American former astronaut

1949 – Gloria Hendry, American actress

1949 - Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)

1951 – Lindsay Cooper, English bassoon player and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel, and Feminist Improvising Group) (d. 2013)

1956 – Julia Glass, American novelist

1958 – Miranda Richardson, English actress

1961 - Mary Page Keller, actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk)

1962 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American long jumper

1964 – Laura Harring, Mexican-American actress

1966 – Sophia Aliberti, Greek TV presenter and actress

1966 – Heidi Swedberg, American actress and musician

1970 – Julie Bowen, American actress

1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa

1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43

1991 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84

1996 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)

2013 - A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured



http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0303calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/3