1483: King Edward IV died, leaving his wife, Elizabeth Woodville, without the ability to protect her son Edward's claim to the throne.
1484: Edward, Prince of Wales, the only son of Richard III and Anne Neville, died, leaving Richard without any sons (or daughters) as heirs.
1827: Maria Susanna Cummins born
1837: Lucy Ellen Sewall born (April 9?)
1876: Dorothy Ann Hahn born
1888: Florence Beatrice Smith Price born
1939: Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in a free concert on Easter Sunday, after the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) refused her permission to sing at Constitution Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest.
1992: March for Women's Lives held
Quote for Today
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?
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