527: Theodora becomes Empress of Byzantium
1802: Dorothea Dix born
1837: Abbie Park Ferguson born
1869: Anna Elizabeth Broomall admitted to Pennsylvania Hospital to study medicine
1872: Mary Coffin Ware Dennett born
1881: Maude Frazier born
1889: Dorothy Lerner Gordon born
1928: Maya Angelou born
1931: Anna Elizabeth Broomall died
1984: Authorities broke up the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (Berkshire, England) (story)
Quote for Today
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
-- Dorothea Dix
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition -- about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.
-- Maya Angelou
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