1188: Blanche of Castile born. Queen of France, 1223-1226; Queen Mother 1226-1252 regent of France 1226-1234 and 1248-1252 queen consort of King Louis VIII of France mother of King Louis IX of France (St. Louis) 1773: Frances Slocum born 1781: Rebecca Gratz born. Rebecca Gratz (March 4, 1781 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - August 27, 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a preeminent Jewish American educator and philanthropist. In 1801, at the age of 20, she helped establish the Female Association for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances, which helped women whose families were suffering after the American Revolutionary War. In 1815, after seeing the need for an institution for orphans in Philadelphia, she was among those instrumental in founding the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum. 1815: Myrtilla Miner born. Myrtilla Miner was an American educator and abolitionist whose school for African Americans, established against considerable opposition, grew to a successful and long-lived teachers institution. She worked at the Newton Female Institute (1846–47) in Whitesville, Mississippi, where she was refused permission to conduct classes for African American girls. In 1851, with encouragement from Henry Ward Beecher and with a board of trustees which included Johns Hopkins and other Quaker philanthropists, Miner opened the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, DC. The school was eventually merged with other local institutions to form the University of the District of Columbia. 1847: Anna Elizabeth Broomall born 1875: Ellen Gertrude Emmett Rand born 1877: Mabel Gillespie born 1881 - Eliza Ballou Garfield became the first mother of a U.S. President to live in the executive mansion. 1889: Pearl White born 1913: Marguerite Taos Amrouche born 1917 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. 1933: Frances Perkins appointment as Secretary of Labor announced -- first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. Presidents Cabinet. 1944 - Fannie Williams died. Fannie Barrier Williams was an African American teacher, social activist, clubwoman, lecturer, and journalist who worked for social justice, civil liberties, education, and employment opportunities, especially for black women. A talented speaker, writer, and musician, she was welcomed in cultured white society in the North, but remained loyal to people of color, knowing that the advantages she enjoyed were not given to other blacks. When the Civil War ended, the Federal government established schools to educate newly freed slaves. Inspired by her parents friend Frederick Douglass, the former slave and abolitionist who lived in nearby Rochester, and now more knowledgeable about the oppression of blacks, Fannie obtained a teaching position in the South. For the first time she experienced the daily degradations—segregation, intimidation, and physical assaults—suffered by many African Americans. At first she tried to adapt to the dreadful conditions, but said in A Northern Negros Autobiography, 1904, I had missed the training that would have made this continued humiliation possible. She went to Boston to study piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, but was asked to leave because Southern white students objected to her presence. I never quite recovered from the shock and pain of my first bitter realization, she wrote, that to be a colored woman is to be discredited, mistrusted and often meanly hated. Williams came to national prominence at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Black women leaders had protested their exclusion from the fairs planning. To appease them, Williams was appointed to gather exhibits for the womens hall. More importantly, she presented two courageous and controversial addresses, one to the Worlds Congress of Representative Women, and the other to the Worlds Parliament of Religions. 1950 - Walt Disney’s Cinderella was released across the U.S. 1999 - Monica Lewinskys book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton went on sale in the U.S.
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