Herstory today
Posted 11/15/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Today in herstory. The first
kosher butcher is licensed. The Mason/Dixon line is surveryed and the First
Catholic college opens. Also Free postal delivery is inaugurated. Elvis makes his film debut and the events
soon to be know in Capot’s In Cold Blood actually takes place. . . . .
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herstory today
Posted 11/14/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Samuel Pepys diary hits the newsstands. The first horse drawn street car appears in NY. Moby Dick is published and the Niagra Falls Power plant begins operation. The BBC begins radio broadcasting as does Murphy Brown across the pond. . . . .
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Friday 13th Herstory
Posted 11/13/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
"Death and Taxes" was uttered today by Ben Franklin. The first anti-slavery party is former and The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic. Isadora Duncan dies, Bowling becomes a sport and the first sit down strike takes place. . . . .
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Herstory today
Posted 11/12/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Jules Leotard, the creator of the Leotard performs on the trapeze for the first time. The first known photo of the Loch Ness monster is taken. Fantasia is released by Disney. Ellis Island closes and Wilma Rudolph dies. . . . .
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Vet's day herstory
Posted 11/11/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Today in Herstory: Happy Armistice Day. The first medical school for women opened in 1848. The Memorial for women who died in Vietnam is authorized. The Church of England allows women to become priests in 1992 and happy birthday first lady Abigail Smith Adams, writer Anne Green and actress Maude Adams. . . . .
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Herstorian in Recovery
Posted 11/1/2009 - Suzanne Caplan | 1 comment(s)
Our faithful historian is recovering from a Cardiac procedure and I am totally unequiped to hanldle this topic. Perhaps I will have to learn for a few days.
Good Luck DB . . . .
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October 29 Today in Herstory: Babylon falls to Persia (to become Iran).
Posted 10/28/2009 - Suzanne Caplan | 0 comment(s)
King Charles II grants Pennsylvania (the area) to William Penn. The International Red Cross is founded and the first ball point pen goes on sale at Gimble’s. Oh and the National Organization of women is founded. . . . .
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herstory today
Posted 10/28/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Today
in Herstory: Whitney patents the cotton gin and Grover Cleveland dedicates the
State of Liberty. Fingerprints are used for the first time by Police in St. Louis and the
Volstead act passed (Prohibition)
despite a veto by President Wilson. . . . .
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