590: Violet Hilton Conjoined Twin with Her Sister Daisy Born: 5 February 1908, Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom Died: January 1969, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America Daisy and Violet were born to an unmarried woman and were pygopagus twins; meaning they were joined at the hips and fused at the pelvis. They shared blood…
“We [were] lonely, rich girls who were really paupers living in practical slavery.” “I’m not a machine; I’m a woman. I should have the right to live like one.” 589: Daisy Hilton Conjoined Twin with Her Sister Violet Born: 5 February 1908, Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom Died: January 1969, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of…
“It was a day that everyone celebrated because everyone had somebody in the war, and they were coming home. So it was a wonderful gift finally to end this war. It was a long war, and it cost a lot.” 588: Greta Zimmer Friedman Female Subject of the VJ Day Kiss in Times Square Photograph…
“Even when I was 5 years old, people would say to my parents, ‘What’s with that kid and her memory? She remembers the last time I was here and everything that happened,’ “They’d call me Little Miss Memory, the Memory Kid, or UNIVAC. You know, the old-fashioned computer. “If someone [in my family] wanted to…
586: Carrie Ann Inaba Choreographer, Dancer, Singer, Actress, and Television Personality Born: 5 January 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America Carrie Ann is most well known for being a judge on Dancing With the Stars (US). She also appeared on episodes of In Living Color and started her career as a singer in Japan….
“I was never allowed to go over to any of my friends’ houses when I was little, because I was a bad influence. None of their parents liked me and my own parents were scared to death of me— and for me.” 585: Alecia Moore Singer Known Professionally as P!nk Born: 8 September 1979, Doylestown,…
“I should have been relentless at saving [our marriage], as relentless as June was at destroying it.” 584: Vivian Liberto Distin Johnny Cash’s First Wife Born: 23 April 1934, San Antonia, Texas, United States of America Died: 24 May 2005, Ventura, California, United States of America Vivian is also the mother of his daughters Roseanne,…
583: Ulrika Eleanora Stålhammar Female Soldier During the Great Northern War Born: c.1683, Svenarum, Sweden Died: 16 February 1733, Hultsjö, Sweden As a child, Ulrika was a persistent tomboy and hated womanly ideals. She ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage. In 1713, she joined the army as a man and the next…
“Yes, we want to be inclusive of everyone [and respect that] everyone comes in all different shapes and sizes. That nobody should ever be body-shamed or fat-shamed or excluded and that everyone is equally deserving and should feel equally valuable. But obesity in itself is not something that should be glamorized. But we’ve become so…
581: Deborah Sampson Gannett Revolutionary War Soldier Born: 17 December 1760, Plympton, The Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present-day Plympton, Massachusetts, United States of America) Died: 29 April 1827, Sharon, Massachusetts, United States of America Deborah is also the first known American woman to dress up as a man to fight in war. She enlisted in the…