~545 C.E: Saint Clotilda died
1853: Hannah Kent Schoff born (reformer, PTA founder)
1888: Alice Fisher died (nurse)
1893: Lizzie Borden went on trial for murdering her father and stepmother.
1898: Rosa Chacel born (writer)
1906: Josephine Baker born (entertainer)
1906: Mildred Edie Brady born (journalist, editor, reformer, consumer advocate)
1911: Jean Harlow born (actress)
1926: Colleen Dewhurst born (actress)
1940: Helen Marot died (reformer, librarian, labor organizer, public official, writer)
1944: Martha Clarke born (dancer, choreographer)
1972: Sally Priesant ordained, first woman rabbi in the United States
Feast Day: Saint Clotilda (also known as Clotilde and Chlotilde)
Quote for Today
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
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