659: Gertrude of Nivelles died: abbess
1665: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre born: musician
1798: Abigail Powers Fillmore born: First Lady, married to US President Millard Fillmore
1820: Jean Ingelow born: poet, author
1841: Emily Sartain born: painter, engraver, principal of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women
1846: Kate Greenaway born: illustrator and watercolorist
1847 (or 1846 or 1848): Clara Morris born: actress
1849: Cornelia Maria Clapp born: taught biology, natural history and gymnastics at Mount Holyoke College
1862: Martha Platt Falconer born: social reformer, especially working with delinquent girls
1863: Anna Wessels Williams born: bacteriologist, worked on antitoxin for diphtheria
1869: Corra Harris born: writer
1878: Helen Gardner born: art historian
1886: Princess Patricia of Connaught (Lady Patricia Ramsay) born: granddaughter of Queen Victoria, gave up royal title on marrying commoner Alexander Ramsay
1898: Ella Winter born: journalist
1903: Radie Britain born: composer, teacher
1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1911: Camp Fire Girls founded
1930: Betty Allen born: singer; executive director, Harlem School of the Arts
1933: Myrlie Evers-William born: civil rights activist, journalist; widow of murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1963); first woman and first layperson to deliver an invocation for a presidential inauguration, 2013
1969: Golda Meir becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Israel; served 1969 - 1974
1972: Mia Hamm born: professional soccer player, author
Christian Feast Day: Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
Quote for Today
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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