1830: Harriet Lane Johnston born (or May 8?) (White House hostess, James Buchanan administration)
1842: Mary Bassett Mumford born
1844: Belle Boyd born (Confederate spy, writer)
1865: Elizabeth Jordan born (journalist and writer, covered Lizzie Borden trial, collaborated on Anna Howard Shaw's autobiography)
1928: Barbara Ann Scott born (Olympic gold medal winner in figure skating, known as "Canada's sweetheart")
Quote for Today
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton, 1963
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