1052: Ariadna Scriabina Poet, French Resistance Fighter and co-founder of the Armée Juive Born: 26 October 1905, Bogliasco, Italy Died: 22 July 1944. Toulouse, France Original Name: Regine-Ariane Scriabina Her Preferred Name: Sarah Knut Full Disclosure: The majority of easily accessible website articles about Ariadna are kind of sketchy and have lots of grammar/spelling mistakes….
Judge Hughes delivering the oath of office to incoming President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination, November 1963 1013: Sarah T Hughes Lawyer and Judge Born: 2 August 1896, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America Died: 23 April 1985, Dallas, Texas, United States of America Sarah is most remembered for swearing in…
“Since the war of 1860 there have been one hundred and three (103) of my people murdered, and our reservation taken from us; and yet we, who are called blood-seeking savages, are keeping our promises to the government. Oh, my dear good Christian people, how long are you going to stand by and see us…
934: Sarah Thomas Sports Fan Who has Kept Her Life Involved in a Number of Different Games Born: 21 September 1973, Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States of America In 2009, Sarah became the first woman to officiate a bowl game (college football). In 2011, she became the first woman to work in a Big Ten stadium….
899: Sarah Shelton Henry Patrick Henry’s First Wife Born: 29 May 1736, Rural Plains, The Colony of Virginia (Present-day Rural Plains, Virginia, United States of America) Died: 19 March 1775, Scotchtown, The Colony of Virginia (Present-day Scotchtown, Virginia, United States of America) Patrick kept Sarah in the cellar to protect her from herself and others….
872: Sarah ‘Great Western’ Bowman Innkeeper, Army Camp Follower, and Restauranteur Born: c.1813, Tennessee or Missouri, United States of America* Died: 22 December 1866, Fort Yuma, California, United States of America Sarah is best known for being a follower of General Zachary Taylor’s army during the Mexican/American War. Sarah was (according to one source in…
“If I should be so fortunate as to reach the White House, I expect to live on twenty-five thousand dollars a year, and I will neither keep house nor make butter.” 832: Sarah Polk Former First Lady of the United States During Her Husband, James K Polk’s Administration Born: 4 September 1803, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United…
744: Sarah Morgan Dawson Author of A Confederate Girl’s Diary Born: 28 February 1842, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America Died: 5 May 1909, Paris, France The diary chronicled Sarah’s life from the age of nineteen to just before her death and has been published three times. Sarah only received one year of formal…
743: Sara Blakely Spanx Founder Born: 27 February 1971, Clearwater, Florida, United States of America Sara is now estimated to be worth a billion dollars. That’s this many: $1,000,000,000! In March of 2012, Forbes crowned Sara the youngest (until Kylie Jenner came along that is) self-made female billionaire. The following year, Sara signed the Melinda…
640: Sarah Winchester Folk Figure and Heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Fortune Born: c.1840, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America Died: 5 September 1922, San Jose, California, United States of America Sarah is remembered for continually building on her home in San Jose, California—purportedly to keep the spirits killed by Winchester rifles from…