herstory this day
Posted 2/4/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Mary Baker Eddy is healed by her faith. The Poll Tax is outlawed, Patty Hearst is kidnapped before turning outlaw. Betty Friedan dies on her birthday and Karen Carpenter’s death takes the mystique out of Anorexia. Birthday include Rosa Parks on Black history month and actor/director Ida Lupino. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/3/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The issuence of Paper money in the colonies. The Whig party holds its first convention. The Sons of Gertrude Stein, President Nixon signs the endangered Species act into law. (yes that liberal Nixon) The execution of Karla Faye Tucker and stir in the birth of the first Embryo transplant baby. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/2/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Saints, Kings, Empresses, Chinese Aliens, What’s my Line? Molly Bloom, Ma Rainey, Ayn Rand, Simone Weil and with just a scent of tokenism; Custer has his last stand. Oh, and remember the TRS-80 and Liz’s 3 rd marriage. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/1/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Queens who execute (each other), The origin of Mary Wollstoncraft’s Frankenstein, the creation of Lady Astor’s social elite 400 and the issuance of the first auto insurance policy. Then there’s sit ins at Woolworths, the opening of Grand Central Station and the banning of “Louie, Louie” 102 years after the Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymm of the Republic is first published. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 1/31/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The coming of evaporated milk. The first Checkhov play, as well as the first soap opera and the latest statistics on marriage, divorce, and Lung Cancer rates for women. On the light side we have All the Presidents Children and McDonald's opens in Moscow with Cabbage Pie. . . . .
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hestory today
Posted 1/30/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Saloons are smashed in Kansas , A Texas Ranger turns Vigilante and takes
to the airwaves (not Chuck Norris), Women are allowed in The House of Lords and Ida
May Fuller is the recipient of the first Social Security check - $ . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 1/29/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Radiation is first used for treating Breast Cancer, Prohibition goes into effect, Liz marries for the first time as does Paul and Joanne, with far different results. And lots of women birthdays; known, unknown and over exposed. Like a certain weather girl from Chicago and an Australian Feminist who brought the term Eunuch 15 minutes of fame. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 1/28/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Today in Herstory: More Tudor intrigue, the coming of street lights, The phone company and the rise of Beverly Hills from the swamps. And happy Birthdays to Colette and Sister Jeanne-Francoise de Chantal, who found themselves on different ends of the sexual Teeter-Totter (see saw)
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