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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This Day in Women's History Calendar � 1999-2006 Jone Johnson Lewis.
