1141: the Empress Matilda was proclaimed Lady of the English ("domina anglorum" or "Anglorum Domina" or "Angliae Normanniaeque domina") by a clergy council at Winchester, supported by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois, brother of Stephen, who had seized the throne despite Matilda's claim to it as her father's named successor
1827: Barbara Bodichon born (artist, women's rights advocate)
1865: Albion Fellows Bacon born
1893: Mary Pickford born
1904: Grace Arabella Goldsmith born
1912: Sonja Henie born
Quote for Today
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the saying down.
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