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niyad

(113,372 posts)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 12:23 PM Oct 2012

today in women's herstory

October 6
This Day in Women's History


1789: Women's March on Versailles continued

1820: Jenny Lind born (singer: soprano)

1905: Helen Wills Moody born (tennis player)

1908: Carole Lombard born (actor)

1917: Fannie Lou Hamer born (reformer: civil rights)

1973: Rebecca Lobo born (basketball player, sportscaster, health activist)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/10calendar/a/1006calendar.htm

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