today in women's herstory

February 11
This Day in Women's History



1466: Elizabeth of York (later Queen of England) born

1503: Elizabeth of York, widow of Henry VII of England, died

1671: Hannah Callowhill Penn born

1802: Lydia Maria Child born

1805: Explorer Meriwether Lewis served as midwife at the birth of the son of Sacagawea, guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition

1855: Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge born

1858: Bernadette Soubiros saw a vision at Lourdes.

1911: Jeannette Rankin became the first woman to address the Montana Legislature, speaking for woman suffrage.

1962: Poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide

1975: Margaret Thatcher took the lead of the British Conservative Party, the first woman to hold that position (story)

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