1818: Emma Marwedal born: founded first free kindergarten in California
1837: Francesca Alexander born: author and illustrator
1850: Laura Howe Richards born: daughter of Julia Ward Howe, writer
1861: Louise Kellogg (opera singer) debuted
1869: Alice Hamilton born: Hull House resident, occupational health researcher and writer, first woman member of Harvard's faculty
1872: Charlotte Ray, first African American woman lawyer, graduated from Howard Law School
1888: Lotte Lehman born
1922: Supreme Court of the United States found that the 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, was constitutional
1932: Elizabeth Taylor born: actress, much-married celebrity, AIDS/HIV activist
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
1972: "Ms." title first included in the US Government Printing Office's official style book
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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