1819: Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt born
1840: Constance Fenimore Woolson born
1854: Mary Elizabeth Garrett born
1854: Eliza Ann Cooper Blaker born
1885: Louise Pearce born
1892: Josephine Herbst born
1897: Soong Mei-ling born (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
1948: Leslie Marmon Silko born
1966: Anna Akhmatova died
Quote for Today
When a girl arrives at the age of twenty-one, we want her to do things instead of just thinking, to realize the importance of political affairs and to have a well-balanced mind developed equally by an early education in citizenship, religion, home making and play.
— Lou Henry Hoover
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