today in women's herstory-12 april
April 12
This Day in Women's History
1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1555 Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
1834: Harriet Burbank Rogers born (educator, pioneer in instruction for deaf)
1841: Jennie Maria Drinkwater born (author)
1844: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis born (poet and editor)
1866 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 Ella Gaunt Smith, Innovative American doll manufacturer (d. 1932)
1883: Imogen Cunningham born (photographer)
1898: Eleanor Touroff Glueck born (social worker, criminologist, studied juvenile offenders)
1904: Lily Pons born (sopranio, actress)
1908 Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
1912 Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
1917 Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1923 Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2004)
1929 Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1935 Wendy Savage, English gynaecologist and campaigner
1944 Lisa Jardine, English historian
1948 Lois Reeves, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1961 Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance)
1961 Magda Szubanski, English-Australian actress
1963 Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist
1964 Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1967 Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter (Saint Etienne)
1968 Alicia Coppola, American actress
1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, and director
1973 Claudia Jordan, American model and actress
1973 Christina Moore, American actress
1974 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1974 Marley Shelton, American actress
1975 Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1906)
1977 Sarah Jane Morris, American actress
1977 Jordana Spiro, American actress
1979 Claire Danes, American actress
1979 Jennifer Morrison, American actress and producer
1979 Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
1985 Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress
1985 Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter (Serebro)
1985 Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and Hangry & Angry)
1986 Lorena, Spanish singer
1988 Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
1989 Kaitlyn Weaver, Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 Francesca Halsall, English swimmer
1993 Katelyn Pippy, American actress
1994 Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress
1994 Saoirse Ronan, American-Irish actress
1994 Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer (Aa!, Cute, and Buono!)
1996 Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast
2000 Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
2002 A female suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2008 Cecilia Colledge, English figure skater (b. 1920)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0412calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12
http://www.historyorb.com/events/april/12