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Women Who Made History…today by VirtueDigest: 3:42pm On Sep 14, 2016
1963
Sep 14, Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, S.D., gave birth to four girls and a boy, the first surviving quintuplets in the United States.

1969
Sep 14, Males of Swiss canton Schaffhausen rejected female suffrage.

1982
Sep 14, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before. Her daughter Stephanie survived the crash. Kelly rose to prominence in film with 1952's 'High Noon', and she worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several films including 'Rear Window'. Her movie career was a brief six years where she did win an Oscar for 'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film following her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.

1984
Sep 14, Janet Gaynor (77), the first actress to win an Academy Award (1929), died in San Francisco. She had never fully recovered from a car crash in 1982. Her 34 movies included “Seventh Heaven" and the first “A Star Is Born."

1991
Sep 14, Carolyn Suzanne Sapp of Hawaii was crowned “Miss America."

1996
Sep 14, Tara Dawn Holland of Overland Park, Kansas, won the Miss America beauty pageant.

2002
Sep 14, Lolita Torres (72), a singer and one of the top actresses of Argentina's golden era of cinema, died of complications from a lung infection.


2003
Sep 14, Yetunde Price (31), older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, was shot and killed in LA County. Suspect Aaron Michael Hammer (24) was arrested 2 days later.

2014
Sep 14, Miss New York Kira Kazantsev was crowned Miss America.

2014
Sep 14, A fourth Sierra Leonean doctor, a woman, died after contracting the dreaded Ebola virus.

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