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Women Who Made History…today by VirtueDigest: 3:15pm On Jun 30, 2017 |
1936 Jun 30, The novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell was published in New York. 1940 Jun 30, "Brenda Starr," a cartoon strip by Dale Messick, a woman, appeared in a Chicago Tribune insert. In Dec, 2010, Tribune Media Services announced that it was ending the feature’s newspaper syndication. 1966 Jun 30, Betty Friedan (1921-2006) and 27 other women and men founded the National Organization for Woman and served as its 1st president (1966-1970). Catherine S. East (1916-1996) persuaded Betty Friedan to found NOW. 1974 Jun 30, Alberta King (b.1903), mother of Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia by Marcus Chenault, a twenty-one year old from Ohio who claimed that "all Christians are my enemies." 1995 Jun 30, In a Greensburg, Indiana, a mobile home fire killed the 3-year-old son of Kristine Bunch. She was arrested in 1996, accused of setting the fire and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. In 2012 she was released following 16 years behind bars for a murder she said all along she didn't commit. The Indiana Court of Appeals had ordered the local court to allow Bunch's release on bond while she awaits a second trial. 1998 Jun 30, Linda Tripp, whose tape-and-tell friendship with Monica Lewinsky spurred a White House crisis, spent six hours testifying before a grand jury in Washington. 1998 Jun 30, Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani in Long Beach, Ca., ordered the activation of a stun belt (50,000 volts), fitted under the jail jumpsuit of defendant Ronnie Hawkins, for his repeated interruptions. 2003 Jun 30, Beatriz Merino (55), Peru's first female PM debuted, pledging to bring discipline and austerity to the beleaguered government amid hopes her appointment will help salvage Alejandro Toledo's presidency. here thousands of displaced people are living in tents. A 4-year-old boy was run over by a truck (AP, 7/1/05) 2011 Jun 30, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived for the two-day "Community of Democracies" gathering in Vilnius, Lithuania. 2013 Jun 30, In Spain Aurea Vazquez Rijos, accused of hiring someone to kill her wealthy Canadian husband in Puerto Rico on Sep 23, 2005, was arrested by Spanish police after being sought for five years in the alleged murder-for-hire scheme. |
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