1637: Anne Hyde born: first wife of King James II of Great Britain, mother of Mary II of Great Britain
1806: Jane Means Appleton Pierce born: First Lady of the U.S., wife of President Franklin Pierce
1819: Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce born: writer, western pioneer; wrote A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California
1845: Blanche Galton Whiffen born (Mrs. Thomas Whiffen): stage actress born in London, worked in London and America
1862: Jane Delano born: nurse; founded American Red Cross Nursing Service; responsible for identifying mosquito as carrier of Yellow Fever (later confirmed by Walter Reed)
1864: Alice Tegnér born: composer, organist
1871: Louise Mathilde Powell born: nursing educator
1876: Helen Sumner Woodbury born: historian of labor movement and women's suffrage
1877: Annette Abbott Adams born: lawyer; first woman to serve as Assistant Attorney General in the U.S.
1883: Ethel Collins Dunham born: physician, pediatrician, chief of child development at the Children's Bureau, pioneer in care of newborns
1906: Gracie Bowers Pfost born: member of House of Representatives, Idaho, 1953 - 1963
1907: Dorrit Hoffleit born: astronomer
1911: Alice-Leone Moats born: writer
1912: Kylie Tennant born: writer
1912: Girl Guides -- later the Girls Scouts -- founded in the United States by Juliette Gordon Low, modeled on the Boy Scouts
1916: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach born: writer
1918: Elaine de Kooning born: artist
1923: Clara Fraser born: feminist
1946: Liza Minelli born: singer, actress
1948: Virginia Bottomley born: politician
Christian Feast Day: Saint Fina (1238 - 1253)
Quote for Today
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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