1949 Birthday Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women 1939 Birthday Bernie Casey, born in Wyco, West Virginia, actor, Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop 1938 Birthday Barry Primus, New York City, actor, Sergeant McKenna-Cagney and Lacey, Boxcar Bertha 1936 Birthday David Carradine, Hollywood, actor, Kung-Fu, Boxcar Bertha, Young Guns 1926 Event Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1925 Birthday Bertha Tickey, born in Dinuba, California, softball pitcher, Hall of Fame 1973 1918 Event Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) 1902 Birthday Leni Riefenstahl, Helene Bertha Amalie, Germany, actress, Tiefland 1888 Event Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour 1868 Birthday Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle 1843 Birthday Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905 783 Death Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French king Pippin III, dies
