1832: Hannah Whitall Smith born
1859: Emma Nevada born
1867: Laura Ingalls Wilder born
1871: Ethel Perrin born
1888: Dame Edith Evans born (actress)
1898: Frances Willard died (reformer, WCTU president, suffragist)
1918: Ruth Sager born
1926: Negro History Week celebrated for the first time — forerunner of Black History Month
1931: Amelia Earhart and George Putnam married
1971: Women win voting rights in Switzerland ( story)
Quote for Today
I shall always work to advance the happiness and prosperity of my peoples.
— Queen Elizabeth II, February 8, 1952
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. It is the simple things of life that make living worth while, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest and living close to nature.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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