1204: Eleanor of Aquitaine died
1776: Sophie Germain born (French mathematician and number theorist)
1818: Maria Mitchell born (first female professional astronomer in the United States)
1855: Agnes Repplier born
1866: Sophonisba Preston Breckenridge born
1877: Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt born (president of Mills College)
1884: Florence A. Blanchfield born
1884: Laurette Taylor born
1965: Helena Rubinstein died
1991: Martha Graham died
Quote for Today
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian -- if he be a readable historian -- is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.
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