Feast Day: Saint Macrina the Elder
1476: Anne of York died (sister to Kings Edward IV and Richard III, center of a controversy over inheritance of her first husband's titles)
1697: Massachusetts colony officially regretted the Salem witch hunt with a day of fasting
1841: Juliet Corson born
1841: Berthe Morisot born
1844: Clara Kathleen Rogers born
1858: Hannah Greenebaum Solomon born
1878: Isabel Maitland Stewart born
1907: Sophie Redmond born
1913: Tillie Olsen born
1943: Shannon Lucid born
1954: Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio
1994: England's Duchess of Kent converted to Catholicism, becoming the first member of the Royal Family to convert in over 300 years ( story)
Quote for Today
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.
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