1662: Celia Fiennes born (travel writer)
1813?: Cornelia Wells Walter born (journalist)
1840: only daughter of Leopold I of Belgium born, later to become the Empress Carlotta (Carlota) of Mexico
1843: Susan Elizabeth Blow born (educator, kindergarten educator)
1861: Alice Hubbard born (writer)
1870 (or 1868 or 1876): Alice Nielsen born (singer)
1899: Elizabeth Frazier Kee born (Congresswoman, West Virginia)
1899: Elizabeth Bowen born (writer)
1909: Virginia Apgar born (physician)
1909: Jessica Tandy born (actress)
1917: Gwendolyn Brooks born (poet)
1954: Louise Erdrich born (writer)
1977: Queen Elizabeth II celebrated Silver Jubilee
Quote for Today
Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me.
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