1948 Sep 6, Queen Juliana (1909-2004) of the Netherlands was crowned, two days after the abdication of her mother, Queen Wilhelmina. Juliana abdicated in 1980.

1958 Sep 6, Miss Mississippi Mary Ann Mobley was crowned Miss America 1959 in Atlantic City, N.J.

1966 Sep 6, Margaret Higgins Sanger (b.1883), birth control advocate and founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, died. In 1992 Ellen Chesler authored “Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. In 2011 Jean H. Baker authored “Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion."

1997 Sep 6, The USS Hopper, the 354th ship in the modern naval fleet, was commissioned. The high-tech destroyer is the 2nd warship to be named after a woman. Grace Hooper (d.1992) was a computer programmer for the Navy until she retired in 1986 at age 79. She coined the term “debugging" when she pulled a moth from her computer.

2007 Sep 6, Madeleine L’Engle (b.1918), author, died in Litchfield, Conn. Her more than 60 books included “A Wrinkle in Time" (1962), winner of the 1963 Newberry Medal for best American children’s book.

2010 Sep 6, The lawyer for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman convicted for adultery, said she was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper on Aug 28 ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her.