1820: Florence Nightingale born (nurse, reformer, statistician)
1838: Sarah Van de Vort Emery born (populist)
1842: Maria Konopnicka (writer)
1849: Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson born (ethnologist)
1862: Louise Phelps Kellogg born (historian)
1883: Hazel Lucile Harrison (pianist)
1893: Georgia Lee Witt Husk (educator, public official)
1900: Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (educator, WAVES)
1907: Katharine Hepburn born (actor)
1910: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (chemist)
1970: Nelly Sachs died (Nobel Laureate, Swedish poet)
Quote for Today
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women.
-- Pearl S. Buck
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