Today In Herstory
2/21/2008 - DB Metzger
Today in Herstory: St. Joan goes to Trial, the first woman telegraph operator is born and the first telephone book comes out. The first issue of The New Yorker Magazine hits the newsstands and the founder of Mad magazine dies. We have another Moonie mass wedding, Jimmy Swaggert confesses to sin and Alka Seltzer speeds onto the market. Want to know who patented the sewing machine and the origin of the first TV soap Opera? In Music we have Nina Simone and the Humor of Erma Bombeck.
1431 Joan of Arc’s trial began after 4 months as a prisoner.
1846 Sarah Bagley a Union organizer, the first woman telegraph operator and she also practiced Homeopathic medicine
1853 the minting of $3 gold pieces is authorized. One of the most unpopular coins in history. It’s lifetime only lasted 35 years, so if you have one they are worth a good deal.
1878 the first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. with 50 subscribers.
1842 The first known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington DC. Exactly who invented the machine is up for debate.
1885 the Washington Monument is dedicated. Did you know he was a premiere whisky distiller of his time. Forget the Cherry Tree stuff....
1919 Mary Edwards Walker died She was a civil War doctor who received the congressional medal of honor. She was also an advocate for dress reform. Women in trousers.
1925 the first issue of The New Yorker is published by Harold Ross described originally as a Sophisticated Humor magazine
1931 Alka Seltzer is introduced by Miles Laboratory (purchased by Bayer in 1979) Remember Speedy?And then there’s that urban legend about doubling up to sell more bicarbonate.
1947 It’s the firstbroadcast of the first US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" on the Dumont Television Network.
1965 Malcom X is assassinated. Here’s how the papers described the act. Here’s what Minister Louis Farrakhan said on a 60 minutes interview.
1977 the Unification Church marries 74 couples in a mass wedding at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
"my wife and I are cleansing everything that was polluted by false love, false life, and false lineage. Our marriage has achieved the True Parents position; the large international marriage ceremonies which we conduct are to sow the seed of true love, true life, and true lineage, which results from the unity of God's love and man's love"
1981 The "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women is captured
1988 Jimmy Swaggert confesses on TV that he has sinned.
1993 Mad Magazine (not a sophisticated humor magazine) creator Harvey Kurtzman dies from Liver Cancer
Notable Birthdays
1824 Mother Angela Gillespie founder of the Holy Cross Nursing Sisters.
1845 Emma Thursby – "American Nightingale" singer and educator who enjoyed a popular concert career in both Europe and the United States in the 1870s and '80s
1855 Alice Freeman Palmer an advocate of higher education for women. There’s a Palmer Society.
1903 Anais Nin Her journals catapulted her to fame in the 60’s.
1927 Erma Bombeck humorist (the grass is always greener over the Septic Tank)
1933 Nina Simone Diva of Jazz with 500 songs and almost 60 albums to her repertoire
1936 Barbara Jordan the first state Senator since reconstruction. And that was just the beginning, until her life ended abruptly because of Multiple Sclerosis
Quote for Today
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
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