American educator and activist (died 1975)

Mabel Vernon

Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Vernon was inspired by the methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain. Vernon was one of the principal members of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) alongside Olympia Brown, Inez Milholland, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Burns, and Alice Paul, and helped to organize the Silent Sentinels protests that involved daily picketing of Woodrow Wilson's White House.

Born

1883

September 19

Died

1975

Era

1880s

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1975 Died

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96 Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.
634 Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
1356 Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.
1410 End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces.

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The world in 1975

When Mabel departed

april 13 Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
april 17 The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
april 19 India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
april 19 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Abner Haynes 1937–2024 American football player (born 1937) Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Carlos Quintero 1987– Colombian footballer Germán Valdés 1915– Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973) Javier Duarte 1973– Mexican politician Kostya Tszyu 1969– Russian-Australian boxer Leo VI the Wise 866–912 Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (born 866) Mariangela Melato 1941–2013 Italian actress (born 1941) Paulo Freire 1921–1997 Brazilian philosopher and academic (born 1921)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1883

John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 English economist and philosopher (born 1883) Alexander Neill 1883– Scottish educator (died 1973) Anton Webern 1883–1945 Austrian composer and conductor (died 1945) Archibald Wavell 1883–1950 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883) Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 Italian journalist, fascist dictator and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883) Constance Georgina Adams 1883– South African botanist (died 1968) Enoch L. Johnson 1883–1968 American mob boss (born 1883) Franz Kafka 1883–1924 Czech-Austrian author (died 1924) Ikki Kita 1883– Japanese philosopher and author (died 1937)

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