Today in HERstory 1891 – Lillian Estelle Fisher was born. She was a historian; one of the first women to earn a doctorate in Latin American history in the U.S.  Fisher published important works on Spanish colonial administration.
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Today in HERstory 1993 —Top-ranked women’s tennis player Monica Seles, age 19, was stabbed in the back by a deranged male fan of Steffi Graf, during a match in Hamburg, Germany.
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Today in HERstory 1888 – Anita Loosborn, novelist and screenwriter, best known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She wrote screenplays for Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow, as well as memoirs and Twice Over Lightly with Helen Hayes.
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Today in HERstory 1971 – Sara Pereyra Baras was born. She is a Spanish flamenco dancer & choreographer; both a soloist & guest artist, in 1997, she founded her own company, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras.
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Today in HERstory 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
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Today in HERstory 1928 – Shirley Temple Black was born. She was a child star and ingénue in many films; Republican appointee as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia; to Ghana and was the first woman U.S. Chief of Protocol.
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Today in HERstory 1830 – Emily Davies was born. She was a feminist, pioneer in securing university education for women; co-founder and early head of Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in England to educate women.
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Today in HERstory 1917 – Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark was born. She was a psychologist who devised the “Dolls Test” that was key evidence in Brown v. Board of Education
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Today in HERstory 1946 – Clare Francis was born. She is a writer and single-handed and distance racing sailor. She set a women’s transatlantic single-handed record; she was the first woman skipper in the Whitbread Round the World Race.
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Today in HERstory 1693 – Mary Alexander was born. She was a colonial merchant, who was successful and influential; she married twice and had ten children. Her fortune was estimated at 100,000 pounds in 1743.
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Today in HERstory 1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was born. She was the world’s first democratically elected and longest-serving woman president, fourth President of Iceland
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Today in HERstory 1613 – Pocahontas was captured by Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer, and is held as a prisoner to force her father, Algonquian chief Powhatan, to release English captives he was holding.
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Today in HERstory 1916 – Beverly Cleary was born. She was an author, winner of the 1981 National Book Award for Children’s Books, for Ramona and Her Mother, and three-time ALA Newbery Medal winner.
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Today in HERstory 1910 – Annie Dodge Wauneka was born. She was the 1st woman elected to the Navajo Tribal Council; she worked on the tuberculosis epidemic, improved sanitary conditions, clean drinking water, and against alcoholism.
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Today in HERstory 1864 – Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy. She was a feminist and ardent adherent to rational dress for women, refused to wear the clothes provided as “more becoming of her sex”
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Today in HERstory 1966 – Robin Wright was born. She is an actress, producer, & director - most famous for Forrest Gump, The Princess Bride, and House of Cards. She is an activist for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Today in HERstory 1826 – Pancha Carrasco was born. She was a Costa Rican woman who volunteered in 1856 as an army cook and medic, but filled her apron pockets with bullets, grabbed a rifle and joined the Battle of Rivas, becoming the first woman in combat in Costa Rica
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