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Women Who Made History…today by VirtueDigest: 5:17pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
1921 Jul 6, Nancy Reagan, wife of President Ronald Reagan, was born. 1927 Jul 6, Janet Leigh (d.2004, film star, was born as Jeanette Helen Morrison in Merced, Ca. MGM named her Janet Leigh. 1931 Jul 6, Della Reese, singer, actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family), was born in Detroit. 1976 Jul 6, US Naval Academy admitted women for the first time in its history with the induction of 81 female midshipmen. 1991 Jul 6, Steffi Graf won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Gabriela Sabatini 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. 1999 Jul 6, Piseth Peaklica (34), Cambodian actress, was shot by 2 gunmen in a Phnom Penh market and died on July 13. It was rumored that she was involved with a high official (Hun Sen) and ordered killed by a jealous wife (Bun Rany). 2002 Jul 6, Serena Williams beat older sister Venus 7-6 (4), 6-3 to win her first Wimbledon title and second straight Grand Slam tournament. 2002 Jul 6, Randi Hindi (44), a Palestinian woman, and her 2-year-old daughter were shot to death while riding in a taxi in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians claimed Israeli troops were responsible. But the Israeli army said its soldiers did not fire anywhere in the area. 2003 Jul 6, The annual Wife Carrying World Championship took place in Sonkajarvi, Finland. An Estonian team was again favored to win. 2004 Jul 6, Actress Angelina Jolie (29) arrived in Cambodia. PM Hun Sen had offered her citizenship in recognition of her nature conservation work in the country’s northwest. 2007 Jul 6, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (b.1939), author of steamy genre novels, died in Princeton, Minn. She was widely credited with having founded the historical romance in its modern carnal incarnation. “The Flame and the Flower” (1972) was the 1st of her 13 novels. 2007 Jul 6, Lois Wyse (80), advertising whiz, died in Manhattan. Her 65 books included “Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Grandmother” (1989). 2010 Jul 6, Britain's Queen Elizabeth (84) addressed the UN for the first time since1957. The queen's 10-minute speech to a special session of the General Assembly was finished before Netherlands and Uruguay returned to their soccer match in Cape Town. Netherlands progressed to the finals after beating Uruguay 3-2. 2010 Jul 6, In Indian Kashmir one person was killed by drowning while fleeing security forces and a woman (25) was killed by a stray bullet at the window of her home. 2011 Jul 6, In Wyoming a female grizzly bear attacked and killed a man who encountered the bruin and her cubs while he was hiking with his wife in Yellowstone National Park. 2014 Jul 6, In eastern India a 14-year-old girl was dragged into a forest and raped on the orders of a village council in retaliation for a sex assault blamed on her brother. 2014 Jul 6, In Iraq a girl (12) was killed and eight other civilians wounded in an Iraqi airstrike on Tuz Khurmato, a Kurdish-held town in the northern province of Salahuddin. 4 people were killed and 16 wounded in a suicide bomb blast at a cafe in the Washash district of northwestern Baghdad. An Iranian military adviser, who was helping coordinate among Shiite militias, was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. 1 Share
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Re: Women Who Made History…today by darcon1: 5:27pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
6th july
2016
Darcon1 never baf since mornin |
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