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March 6

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

    1791: Anna Claypoole Peale born

    1858: Lilian Welsh born

    1863: Belle Kearney born

    1882: Sarah Wambaugh born

    1886: Julia Evelina Smith died

    1895: Camilla Collet died

    1924: Sarah Caldwell born

    1937: Valentina Tereshkova born

    1973: Pearl Buck died

    1980: Marguerite Yourcenar elected to the Academie Francoise.

    1982: Ayn Rand died

Quote for Today

    Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

    — Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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