1718: Mary of Modena died in France
1818: Juliet Opie Hopkins born (Civil War hospital administrator, Confederacy)
1826: Varina Anne Howell Davis born (Confederate First Lady)
1868: Gail Laughlin born (lawyer, suffragist, public official)
1919: Eva (Evita) Duarte Peron born (First Lady and political force, Argentina)
1927: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala born (writer)
Quote for Today
"[India] is not a place that one can pick up and pull down again as if nothing had happened. In a way it's not so much a country as an experience, and whether it turns out to be a good or bad one depends, I suppose, on oneself."
-- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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