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Women Who Made History...today by VirtueDigest: 4:37pm On Oct 25, 2016
1537
Oct 24, Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.

1916
Oct 24, Industrialist Henry Ford awarded equal pay to women. Ford helped lead American war production with the gigantic facility at Willow Run.

2001
Oct 24, In Montgomery, Texas, Michael James Perry and Jason Burkett fatally shot Sandra Stotler (50), her son Adam Stotler and Jeremy Richardson (18), with a shotgun. Perry (28) was executed in 2010.

2003
Oct 24, Se Ri Pak became the first woman to make the two-round cut in a men's golf tournament since Babe Zaharias in 1945
2005
Oct 24, Rosa Parks (92), who galvanized the civil rights movement in 1955 when she was jailed for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., died at her home in Detroit. Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. King, who later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

2005
Oct 24, Sri Lanka's president and her main political rival agreed for the first time to forge a bipartisan approach to the island's peace process aimed at ending decades of ethnic bloodshed.

2007
Oct 24, In Pakistan a senior official said the senior detective leading the investigation into the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto has withdrawn from the case after the opposition leader accused him of involvement in the torture of her husband in 1999. Pakistan's army said that new troops have been deployed to Swat, a mountain valley popular with tourists until violence flared there this summer, to quell Maulana Fazlullah, who has called for Taliban-style rule and holy war against Pakistani authorities.

2010
Oct 24, Lady Gaga became the first singer to reach 1 billion hits on YouTube.

2013
Oct 24, Germany's Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador following allegations that American intelligence may have targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone. Merkel said she had made it clear to US President Barack Obama that spying on allies is not acceptable
2014
Oct 24, In Mali a two-year-old girl died of Ebola, the country’s first case. The girl and her grandmother had visited Kissidougou, a town in the southern part of Guinea. The child had tested positive two days earlier.
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