1777: Learning that the British were burning Danbury, Connecticut, 16-year-old Sybil Luddington rode 40 miles from New York to Connecticut, rallying her father's militia and earning her in history the nickname "the female Paul Revere"
1795: Frances Manwaring Caulkins born
1820: Alice Cary born
1828: Martha Finley born
1836: Erminnie Adele Platt Smithborn
1860: Mary Raphael Schenck Woolman born
1875: Natalie Curtis (Burlin) born
1882: Jessie Redmon Fauset born
1886: Gertrude Pridgett Rainey born
1893: Anita Loos born
1923: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Albert, Duke of York, second son of King George V of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1936, when Edward VIII abdicated, Albert became King George VI and Elizabeth the queen consort.
Quote for Today
In commercial law, the person duped was too often a woman. In a section on land tenure, one 1968 textbook explains that "land, like women, was meant to be possessed."
-- Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 1974
on women in law schools
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