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July 13

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

    1793: Charlotte Corday, a member of the Girondin faction after the French Revolution, murdered radical Montagnard supporter Jean Paul Marat in his bath

    1848: Five women decided to call a convention in Seneca Falls on the conditions and rights of women

    1863: Mary Woolley born (educator, Mount Holyoke College president, 1901-1937)

    1875: June Etta Downey born (writer, educator, psychologist)

    1979: Women's History Summer Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, July 13-29, led to founding of Women's History Month.

Quote for Today

    I have done my task, let others do theirs.

    -- Charlotte Corday, on trial for murdering Marat

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