03-28 TABLE of CONTENTS: DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS QUOTE by Susan B. Anthony. The complete episode for this date... ...will be published here soon. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | 03-28 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS B. 03-28-1515, Saint Teresa of Avila, first women doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, mystic, writer, and originator of the Carmelite Reform. B. 03-28-1743, Princess Yekaterina Dashkova, helped the coup d'etat that seated Catherine II the Great; supervised the writing of the first Russian dictionary. B. 03-28-1902, Dame Flora Robson, one of the great actors of British and American stage and screen. B. 03-28-1922, Grace Hartigan, abstract expressionist using bold images with slashing brushstrokes and vivid colors. Her mother was a real estate agent. Event: 03-28-1979, Margaret Thatcher of the Conservative Party becomes England's first woman prime minister. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | QUOTES DU JOUR ANTHONY, SUSAN B.:       "Now why is it that man can hold woman to this high code of morals, like Caesar's wife - not only pure but above suspicion - and so surely and severely punish her for every departure, while she is so helpless, so powerless to check him in his license, or to extricate herself from his presence and control? His power grows out of his right over her subsistence. Her lack of power grows out of her dependence on him for her food, her clothes, her shelter."             -- Susan B. Anthony, 1875. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE |