720: Elisa Griensen Fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution Against the United States Born: 2 January 1888, Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Died: 14 November 1972, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico Also Known As: Maria Elisa Martiniana Griensen Zambrano Elisa was orphaned as a child, but her older sister cared for her and their…
719: Lela Karagianni Created a Greek Resistance Group During the Axis Occupation Born: 24 June 1898, Euboea, Kingdom of Greece (Present-day Euboea, Greece) Died: 8 September 1944, Haidari Concentration Camp, Athens, Greece Original Name: Eleni (Or Helen) Karagianni Lela was married and a mother of seven children. She forged documents, supplied information to the British,…
718: Manfreda Visconti da Pirovano Papess of Guglielma’s Feminized Christian Sect Birth Date Unknown, Most Likely Milan, Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Milan, Italy) Died: 1300 AD, Milan, Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Milan, Italy) Also Spelled: Maifreda Manfreda was supposed to ascend in 1300 after Easter in a new age of Holy Spiritual-ness but instead she…
“I am afraid I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E.” 717: Peg Entwistle Actress who Jumped from the Hollywoodland Sign Born: 5 February 1908, Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom Died: 16 September 1932, Los Angeles,…
716: Octavia the Younger Marc Antony’s Fourth Wife Born: c.69 BC, Nola, Roman Empire (Present-day Nola, Italy) Died: c.11 BC, Rome, Roman Empire (Present-day Rome, Italy) Also Known As: Octavia Minor Octavia was also Octavian (later known as Augustus)’s sister, Octavia Major’s half-sister, and the great grandmother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger. Oh, she…
715: Sandra Day O’Connor First Female Supreme Court Justice in United States History Born: 26 March 1930, El Paso, Texas, United States of America Died: 1 December 2023, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America Sandra graduated high school two years early and was admitted to Stanford when she was sixteen; earning a bachelor’s degree in…
“I have no intention of just sitting quietly and observing. I intend to focus attention on the nation’s problems.” 714: Shirley Chisholm Congresswoman and the First African American Woman to Serve in the House of Representatives Born: 30 November 1924, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America Died: 1 January 2005, Ormond Beach, Florida, United…
“The only thing I think any of us want, is to last as long as we’re any good…And then not.” 713: Katharine Meyer Graham Former President of The Washington Post Born: 16 June 1917, New York City, New York, United States of America Died: 17 July 2001, Boise, Idaho, United States of America Katharine’s childhood…
These are the entries that were accused of crimes. Whether it was extortion, tricking the public, treason, murder, or any other number of crimes, here are their names. Please note, some of these entries were accused but never convicted, and others were found guilty but were probably innocent, but here they are just the same….
These entries were victims of a crime sometime in their life. Unfortunately, some of these entries were never able to escape their abuser, or some of them were set upon at their most vulnerable moment. Sadly, some of them were attacked out of the blue, and never saw it coming. This page honors all of…