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Bertha


1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women

1939 Bernie Casey, born in Wyco, West Virginia, actor, Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop

1938 Barry Primus, New York City, actor, Sergeant McKenna-Cagney and Lacey, Boxcar Bertha

1936 David Carradine, Hollywood, actor, Kung-Fu, Boxcar Bertha, Young Guns

1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle

1925 Bertha Tickey, born in Dinuba, California, softball pitcher, Hall of Fame 1973

1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)

1902 Leni Riefenstahl, Helene Bertha Amalie, Germany, actress, Tiefland

1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour

1868 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle

1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905

783 Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French king Pippin III, dies


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