Brazilian feminist and scientist (died 1976)

Bertha Lutz

Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She was instrumental in gaining women's suffrage in Brazil and represented her country at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, signing her name to the United Nations Charter and championing the inclusion of Article 8 in the Charter. In addition to her political work, she was a naturalist at the National Museum of Brazil, specializing in poison dart frogs.

Born

1894

August 2

Died

1976

Era

1890s

Country

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Bertha, in brief

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Key dates

1894 Born
1976 Died

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-338 A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
-216 The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
-49 Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year, leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.
461 Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

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The world in 1976

When Bertha departed

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Also born in 1894

Aino Aalto 1894–1949 Finnish architect and designer (born 1894) Alfred Kinsey 1894–1956 American biologist and academic (born 1894) Amalie Sara Colquhoun 1894–1974 Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894) Arthur Fiedler 1894–1979 American conductor (died 1979) Arthur Gilligan 1894– English cricketer (died 1976) Benjamin Graham 1894–1976 British-American economist, professor, and investor (died 1976) Elizabeth Dilling 1894–1966 American author and activist (died 1966) Georges Lemaître 1894–1966 Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966) Henry Hazlitt 1894– American economist and philosopher (died 1993)

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