From Jone Johnson Lewis,
Your Guide to Women's History.
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1755: Czarina Elizabeth founded first Russian university

1759: Anne of Hanover died

1820: Caroline Severance born

1870: Katherine Philips Edson born

1874: Susan B. Anthony petitions the U.
S. Congress

1875: Marika Stierstedt born

1912: "Bread and Roses" strike began at the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts

1915: US House of Representatives rejected suffrage proposal

1928: Ruth Snyder became the first US woman to die in the electric chair

1930: Jennifer P. Johnston born

1932: the first woman was elected to the U. S. Senate: Arkansas Democrat Hattie Caraway

1965: Lorraine Hansberry died, age 34 (wrote Raisin in the Sun)

1976: Agatha Christie died

1994: Qubilah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, arrested for a plan to murder Louis Farrakhan

Quote for Today

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
� Agatha Christie, in Witness for the Prosecution

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