1212: Claire of Assisi flees her family to avoid marriage, taking vows from Francis of Assisi (canonized 1255; feast day August 11)
1840: Marilla Marks Young Richer born
1852: Rose Coghlan born
1853: Myra Reynolds born
1865: Anna Held born (she claimed 1873 as her birth year)
1875: Anna Hempstead Branch born
1882: Joanna Carver Cokord born
1922: The first American Bat Mitzvah: Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan
1964: Bonnie Blair born (Olympic gold medalist in speed skating)
Quote for Today
The more science learns what life is, the more reluctant scientists are to define it.
— Leila M. Coyne, 1985
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