1477: Mary of Burgundy signed "the Great Privilege" limiting the rulers of the Netherlands and restoring some powers to the cities and states
1675/6: Mary Rowlandson and her three children captured by Indians in Lancaster, Massachusetts - she later writes of her captivity in the first "captivity narrative"
1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert
1843: Adelina Patti born
1872: Marguerite Milton Wells born
1883: Edith Clarke born
1927: Leontyne Price born
Saint's Day: Scholastica
Quote for Today
Accomplishments have no color.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
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