1731: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington born (First Lady)
1816: Grace Aguilar born (writer, poet)
1846: Carrie Nation born (temperance and prohibition advocate, saloon smasher)
1861: Helen Herron Taft born (First Lady)
1875: Dame W. Cullis born
1890 (or 1885): Hedda Hopper born (actress, columnist, born Elda Furry)
1913: Barbara Pym born
1953: Queen Elizabeth II of England crowned at Westminster Abbey (formally announced as Queen on February 2)
Quote for Today
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
-- Hedda Hopper
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