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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
April 9 - April 15
Birthdays
April 11
- In 1948, Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist.
April 12
- In 1883, Imogen Cunningham, photographer (1965 ASMP award).
- In 1923, Maria Callas, opera singer.
April 13
- In 1909, Eudora Welty, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer
1973).
April 14
- In 1866, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher.
April 15
- In 1829, Mary Harris Thompson, the first American woman surgeon.
- In 1898, Bessie Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs).
Deaths
April 12
- In 1912, Clara Barton, organized American Red Cross, died at
90.
Happenings
April 10
- In 1945, the Allies liberated the first Nazi concentration
camp (Buchenwald).
April 11
- In 1980, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission founded, which
regulates sexual harassment.
April 14
- In 73, according to Jewish historian Josephus, 967 Jewish zealots
committed mass suicide within the fortress of Masada on the last night
before the walls were breached by the attacking Roman Tenth Legion.
(Two women and five children survived by hiding in a cistern, and were
later released unharmed by the Romans.)
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