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Susan B. Anthony II (great-niece) Signature. Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age ...
Delphine LaLaurie. Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household.
In 1857, she and her sister Emily, and their colleague Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (1829–1902), founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first American hospital run by women and the first dedicated to serving women and children. [109] [110] Harriet Tubman.
5+. A Malaysian serial rapist and suspected serial killer who killed five to six people and had committed several rapes and property offences. Between 2009 and 2012, Rabidin raped at least five females, four of whom were minors aged eight to 17, and the fifth was a pregnant woman whose husband he had murdered in 2012.
November 7 - Kamala Harris became the first woman elected as Vice President of the United States. [ 331] November 28 - Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game. [ 332] December 30 - Becky Hammon became the first female acting head coach in NBA history. [ 333] 2021.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. [ 1 ] The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men [ 2 ] – who ...
Joseph Lubin, twice. . (divorced) . Harry Helmsley. . . ( m. 1972; died 1997) . Leona Roberts Helmsley (born Lena Mindy Rosenthal; July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman. Her flamboyant personality and reputation for tyrannical behavior earned her the nickname Queen of Mean.
Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2." 4 Children for Sale is a photograph that depicts a mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her head as her four children sit unwittingly beneath a sign that offers all of them for sale. [ 2] The photo was first published by the Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948 and was circulated widely ...