1818: Emma Marwedal born
1837: Francesca Alexander born
1850: Laura Howe Richards born
1861: Louise Kellogg (opera singer) debuted
1869: Alice Hamilton born
1888: Lotte Lehman born
1932: Elizabeth Taylor born
1942: Charlayne Hunter-Gault born (first black student at the University of Georgia, first black reporter at Louisville Times, first black writer at New Yorker Magazine, first black woman correspondent on a daily news program)
Quote for Today
Once there was an elephant
Who tried to use the telephant --
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone.
— Laura Howe Richards: "Eletelephony"
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