1533: Anne Boleyn crowned as queen
1660: Mary Dyer hanged
1797: Abby Hadassah Smith born (reformer, suffragist)
1800: Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz born (writer)
1816: Maria Monk born (writer, anti-Catholic polemicist)
1898: Molly Picon born (actress, singer: Yiddish theater)
1909: Antonia Butler born (cellist)
1926: Norma Jean Mortenson, or Marilyn Monroe born (actress)
1937: Colleen McCullough born (writer)
1950: Senator Margaret Chase Smith spoke out in the U.S. Senate against the "hate and character assassination" that was McCarthyism in her "Declaration of Conscience"
1964: Equal Pay Act became law
1968: Helen Keller died, age 87
Quote for Today
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
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