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03-07 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
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D. 03-07-1729, Henrietta Johnston, self-taught portrait artist
born in Ireland about 1655 and immigrated to the United States with her
husband in 1707 and settled in what is now Charleston, SC. Her husband
immediately became ill and while she nursed him and took care of her children
and home in abject poverty, to raise money she began to draw portraits
of local dignitaries in the new form of pastels.
Almost 50 portraits are credited to her and she is
considered to be the first American woman artist. Her technique was straight
forward with little adornment. Almost nothing is known about her life.
She may have moved to New York to work after her husband's death.
B. 03-07-1856, Matilde Serapo, founder of the Neapolitan daily newspaper
Il Giorno and noted Italian novelist.
B. 03-07-1875, Mary Norton,
U.S. Representative, New Jersey. Chair of the Labor Committee.
B. 03-07-1893, (Alice) Lorena Hickok, highest paid woman newspaper
reporter of her day with Associated Press, political reporter, and
later became investigator for Harry Hopkins in the Department of Commerce
after her involvement with Eleanor Roosevelt made her step out of journalism.
She actually lived in the White House with Mrs. Roosevelt and slept in
ER's apartment.
B. 03-07-1907, Anna Magnani, Italian actor won Academy Award
for her work in The Rose Tattoo (1955) based on a play Tennessee
Williams created especially for her, but she could not play it on Broadway
because she didn't know enough English in 1951.
B. 03-07-1938, Janet Guthrie, an aerospace engineer, was one of the
first four women to qualify for the scientist-astronaut
program of NASA, the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500 races,
finishing ninth in 1978. (She was forced to withdraw two other times because
of engine trouble. Her other entries in 1977 and 1979 were aborted because
of engine trouble. No women were even allowed in the repair and refueling
pits at the Indy 500 until a lawsuit in 1972.)
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