1614: Pocahontas married John Rolfe
1758: Mary Jemison ("White Woman of the Genesee") captured by French soldiers and Shawnee Indians, later sold to the Senecas who adopted her
1761: Sybil Ludington born
1825: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes born
1873: Nellie Neilson born [image]
1876: Mary Elizabeth Bass born
1885?: Fania (or Fannia or Fanny) Mary Cohn born
1901: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander born
1908: Bette Davis born
1989: March for Women's Lives held
Quote for Today
If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.
-- Bette Davis
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