1913: Rosa Parks born
1918: Ida Lupino born
1921: Betty Friedan born
1931: Maria Liberia-Peters born
1974: Patty Hearst, heiress, kidnapped from her Berkeley, California, apartment
1983: Karen Carpenter died
2006: Betty Friedan died
Quote for Today
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. - Rosa Parks
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way. - Betty Friedan
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