1816: Sophie Germain awarded a grand prize by the French Academy of Sciences for work on the mathematics of vibration, foundational to construction of skyscrapers today
1859: Fanny Bullock Workman born (explorer)
1863: Ellen Churchill Semple born (geographer)
1864: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan born (labor organizer)
1867: Emily Greene Balch born (Nobel Peace Prize, 1946)
1870: first issue of Woman's Journal published, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Blackwell
1900: Queen Marie, Yugoslavia, born
1911: Butterfly McQueen born (actress)
Quote for Today
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History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1949
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