today in women's herstory

December 25
This Day in Women's History



1806: Martha Coffin Pelham Wright born (reformer: suffrage; freethinker; sister of Lucretia Mott)

1821: Clara Barton (Clarissa Harlowe Barton) born (Civil War nurse and organizer; relief worker; founder of the American Red Cross)

1833: Agnes Kelly Robertson born (actor)

1850: Isabella Valency Crawford born (poet)

1865: Fay Templeton born (actor)

1865: Evangeline Booth born (Salvation Army leader, daughter of founder William Booth)

1870: Rosa Luxembourg (revolutionary)

1870: Helena Rubinstein born (entrepreneur, businesswoman)

1876: Juliana Reiser Force born (secretary, museum director: Whitney Museum of American Art)

1911: Louise Bourgeois born (sculptor)

1952: Queen Elizabeth made her first Christmas speech by radio ( story and audio of entire radio broadcast)

1963: Elizabeth II, made this broadcast as her Christmas message in 1963 ( audio clip and story)

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