1846: Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton died (poet; until 1894, was mistakenly credited with writing the first American novel in 1789) (pen names included Constantia and Philenia)
1861: Minerva Parker Nichols born (architect)
1861: 18-year-old Adelina Patti (opera singer) made European debut
1878: Mary Wilhelmine Williams born
1902: Helen Flanders Dunbar born (psychiatrist, psychoanalyist)
1943: Tania León born (musician)
1971: the first female pages were appointed at the United States Senate
1991: Winnie Mandela sentenced to six years in prison for taking part in a kidnapping ( story)
1995: Myrlie Evers-Williams sworn in as chairperson of the NAACP. She was the first woman elected to the Board of Directors of the NAACP.
Quote for Today
Expression in its finest utterance lives,
And a new language to creation gives.
-- Sarah Wentworth Morton, "To Mr. Stuart..."
(Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington's portrait
and other pictures celebrating America's early history)
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