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March 13
This Day in Women's History

963: Anna born - her marriage to Vladimir of Kiev led to the Christianization of Russia

1753 – Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, French wife of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1821)

1762 – Anine Frölich, Danish ballerina (d. 1784)

1767: Marie Josepha of Saxony died: Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI who was killed during the French Revolution; daughter of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and Maria Josepha of Austria; also a second cousin of her own daughter-in-law, Marie Antoinette

1798 – Abigail Fillmore, American wife of Millard Fillmore, 14th First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)

1813: Jane Hitchcock Jones born: abolitionist newspaper editor

1875 - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)

1882: Bertha Mahony Miller born: pioneer of publishing for children; founder of Horn Book Magazine and Horn Book publishing company

1892: Janet Flanner born: writer and journalist

1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer

1906 - Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85


1907 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne

1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator

1916: Lindy Boggs (Marie Morrison Claiborne Boggs) born: politician, first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, member of the House of Representatives 1973 - 1991; mother of Cokie Roberts, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. and Barbara Boggs Sigmund

1918 - Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime.

1925 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)

1928 – Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)

1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)

1935 – Leslie Parrish, American actress

1936 – Nana Meskhidze, Georgian painter (d. 1997)

1938 – Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)

1939 – Marion Foale, English fashion designer

1940 – Jacqueline Sassard, French actress

1940 – Candi Staton, American singer

1941 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (b. 1881)

1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army

1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands

1947 – Lesley Collier, English ballet dancer

1949 – Sian Elias, New Zealand politician, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand

1949 – Julia Migenes, American soprano and actress

1949 – Emmy Verhey, Dutch violinist

1953 – Nicola Davies, Welsh British High Court judge

1953 – Deborah Raffin, American actress and producer (d. 2012)

1954 – Valerie Amos, Guyanan British politician and UN Under-Secretary

1954 – Robin Duke, Canadian actress

1955 – Glenne Headly, American actress

1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)

1955 - Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)

1956 – Dana Delany, American actress and producer

1957 - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84

1958 – Linda Robson, English actress

1959 – Kathy Hilton, American actress and fashion designer

1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party

1964: Kitty Genovese murdered in New York City while neighbors watched without acting; this incident triggered psychological research into the "bystander effect"

1965 – Gigi Rice, American actress

1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress

1971 – Tracy Wells, American actress

1975 - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75

1977 - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies

1980 – Flavia Cacace, Italian dancer

1980 – Molly Stanton, American actress

1981 – Toccara Jones, American model and actress

1995 – Odette Hallowes, French-English nurse and agent (b. 1912)

1995 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65

1996 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85

1997: Sister Nirmala chosen as successor to Mother Teresa to head missionary work in India

2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)

2009 – Betsy Blair, American-English actress (b. 1923)


http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0313calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/13

http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/mar13.htm