1680: Kateri Tekakwitha died (born 1656)
1693: Mary Spratt Provoost Alexander born
1813: Susan Fenimore Cooper born
1845: Isabel Barrows born
1851: Anna Garlin Spencer born
1873: Daisy Florence Simms born
1885: Isak Dinesen born (pen name of Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, writer)
1916: Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike born: became the world's first woman prime minister (Sri Lanka)
1969: Bernadette Devlin elected as British MP, youngest female MP to that date at age 21 (story)
1988: Louise Nevelson died (artist)
Quote for Today
A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife."
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