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Women Who Made History…today by VirtueDigest: 4:11pm On Jun 15, 2016
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Jun 15, Rachel Robards Jackson, U.S. first lady to Andrew Jackson, she caused a scandal by marrying Jackson before divorcing her husband, was born.

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Jun 15, May Belle Elsas (d.2003), opera singer and actress, was born in NYC. She changed her name to Mary Ellis when she joined the Metropolitan Opera at age 18.

1967
Jun 15, Gov. Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which permitted abortions in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy if a woman's life or health was threatened or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

1996
Jun 15, Mary Ashley (1931-1996), video and performance artist, died in San Francisco. She helped found the ONCE Group in Ann Arbor, Mich., and had been involved in the “correspondence art” movement and the Fluxus group of artists.

1996
Jun 15, Ella Fitzgerald (78), jazz singer, the "first lady of song," died in Beverly Hills, Calif.

2005
Jun 15, The autopsy released on Terri Schiavo backed the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged and blind as well.

2006
Jun 15, In Idaho Alofa Time (50) drove into an oncoming car in downtown Boise and killed Samantha Nina Murphy (36) and daughter Jae Lynne Grimes (4). The severed head of Time’s wife's was tossed from his pickup truck in the suicide attempt.

2009
Jun 15, In California the body of Joanne Witt (47) was found at her home in El Dorado Hills, east of Sacramento. On June 17 her daughter Tyler Marie Witt (15) and boyfriend Steven Paul Colver (20), suspects in the stabbing death, were arrested at a strip mall in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. On Nov 24 a judge ruled that Tyler would have to stand trial as an adult.

2009
Jun 15, In Yemen 3 foreign women, including two German nurses and a South Korean teacher kidnapped on June 12, were found dead. Two children were found alive. Nine foreigners, including seven German nationals, a Briton and a South Korean, disappeared June 12 while on a picnic in Yemen’s northern Saada region.

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