Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Today's date is the anniversary of when, in 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became Africa's first elected head of state! Read all about her at these links: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187159,00.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf; and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4395978.stm.

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1 comment:

Women's History Project said...

Happy Birthday to critic and writer Susan Sontag, 1933-2004. (See a bio here: http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0845942.html.) And another happy birthday to singer Ethel Merman,1908-1984. (See her bio here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ or here: http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=52830.)