1824: Jessie Benton Frßmont born (writer)
1827: Kate Kennedy born (educator, reformer)
1854: Mary Hannah Fulton born (physician, missionary)
1861: Emily Perkins Bissell born (produced first Christmas seals)
1862: Cynthia May Alden born (journalist, social worker)
1890: Hilla Rebay born (artist)
1912: Chien Shiung Wu born (physicist)
1924: Patricia Roberts Harris born (public official)
Quote for Today
History moves in contradictory waves, not in straight lines.
-- Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie
(Women in the Muslim World)
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