Fixed stars in Virgo
Star	1900	2000	R A	Decl 1950	Lat	Mag	Sp	Orb
nu	22VIR47	24VIR10	175 49 21	+06 48 35	+04 35 19	4.20	M1	34m
Zavijava beta	25VIR45	27VIR10	177 01 21	+02 02 47	+00 41 37	3.80	F8	37m
Zaniah eta	03LIB08	04LIB31	184 20 12	-00 23 21	+02 04 51	4.00	A0	35m
Vindemiatrix epsilon	08LIB33	09LIB56	194 55 18	+11 13 39	+16 12 28	2.95	G6	45m
Porrima gamma	08LIB46	10LIB08	189 46 53	-01 10 32	+02 47 41	2.91	F0	46m
Auva delta	10LIB04	11LIB28	193 16 15	+03 40 07	+08 37 06	3.66	M3	38m
theta	16LIB51	18LIB14	196 50 22	-05 16 21	+01 44 46	5.65	B0	19m
Heze zeta	20LIB29	22LIB52	203 02 09	-00 20 28	+08 38 25	3.44	A2	41m
Spica alpha	22LIB27	23LIB50	200 38 20	-10 54 04	-02 03 03	0.98	B2	65m
tau	26LIB22	27LIB45	209 46 30	+01 47 08	+13 03 58	4.34	A1	33m
Syrma iota	02SCO24	03SCO48	213 20 49	-05 45 46	+07 12 33	4.16	F5	34m
kappa	03SCO07	04SCO30	212 33 33	-10 02 31	+02 54 55	4.31	K2	33m
Khambalia lambda	05SCO33	06SCO57	14h18m	-13.08 00	+00 29 00	4.60	A2	29m
109	07SCO08	08SCO31	220 55 46	+02 06 08	+17 06 22	3.76	A0	37m
mu	08SCO45	10SCO08	220 06 19	-05 26 31	+09 40 49	3.95	F3	35m

Events relating to women

• April 29th 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English. - SNode/Auva
• Feb 13 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry the Eighth, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. - Jupiter/Zaniah
• Feb 12 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with treason. - Jupiter /Vindemiatrix
• Feb 27 1922, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote - NNode /Vindemiatrix
• May 14th 1942, the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established. - Neptune/Zavijava
• January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its "Roe versus Wade" decision, which legalized abortion, using a trimester approach. - Pluto/Zaniah/Zavijava, Uranus/Spica
• Mar 24th 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country's military. - Pluto/Porrima
• Jan 19th 1988 State Farm Insurance Company in California announced it had agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by three former employees. - SNode/Zavijava
• Jan 24th 1997 Publix Super Markets, accused of relegating women to dead-end, low-paying jobs, agreed to pay $81.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. - Mars/Zaniah
• April 21st 1977, the musical play "Annie" opened on Broadway. - NNode/Spica
• May 4th 1997 Cerefino Jimenez Malla became the first Gypsy beatified in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. - NNode/Zavijava

Other events

• April 1st 1947, Greece's King George the Second died. - Neptune/Porrima
• April 12th, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, at age 63. Vice President Harry S. Truman became the nation's 33rd chief executive. - Neptune/Zaniah
• April 28th 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country. - Neptune/Zaniah
• February sixth, 1952, Britain's King George the Sixth died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth the Second. - Neptune/Heze
• Mar 5th 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73 after 29 years in power. - Neptune/Spica
• Feb 19th 1997 Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, died. - Saturn/Zaniah

• Jan 26th 1802, Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the US Capitol. - Uranus /Vindemiatrix

• April 1st 1993 In an impassioned plea for Russian food aid, President Clinton told newspaper editors in Annapolis, Maryland, that America should help "not out of charity" but as a crucial investment in peace and prosperity. - Jupiter /Vindemiatrix

• April 11th 1953, Oveta Hobby became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.  - Saturn and Neptune/Spica

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