1536: Jane Seymour betrothed to King Henry VIII of England, one day after his second wife, Anne Boleyn, was executed for treason. Henry and Jane were married on May 30, 1536.
1768: Dolley Payne Todd Madison born (First Lady)
1825: Antoinette Brown Blackwell born (minister)
1851: Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop (Rose Hawthorne Lathrop) born (writer, religious)
1856: Helen Hopekirk born (musician)
1894: Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns born (journalist, writer)
1901: Doris Fleeson born (reporter)
1932: Amelia Earhart's first solo Atlantic flight
Quote for Today
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
-- Adela Rogers St. John, 1974
I wish women would stand together and shackle the men who want to move us backwards.
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