628: a total eclipse is blamed for the death of Empress Suiko in Japan
1835: Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton born
1850: Fanny Lily Gypsy Davenport born
1880 or 1882: Frances Perkins born
1899: Beatrice Fry Hyslop born [image]
1903: Clare Boothe Luce born
1910: Margaret Antoinette Clapp born
1930: Dolores Huerta born
Quote for Today
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
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