1795: Barbara Heinemann born (religious leader, Amana Society)
1847: Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes born
1870: Alice Caldwell Hogan Rice born
1885: Alice Paul born (suffragist)
1899: Eva Le Gallienne born
1921: Juanita Kreps born
1928: Amelia Earhart began her record-breaking flight from Honolulu to California
1963: Tracy Caulkins born (Olympic swimmer)
Quote for Today
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
— Eva Le Gallienne
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