1646: Elena Cornaro Piscopia born (mathematician and prodigy)
1654: Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated her throne
1832: Kaahumanu died (ruler of Hawaii)
1836: Miriam Leslie born (editor, publisher)
1851: First installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin published (author: Harriet Beecher Stowe)
1866: Sophie Bell Wright born (educator, relief worker)
1867: Anna Beach Pratt born (social worker, educator, connected with the New York School of Philanthropy)
1880: Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr (she later was known as Belle Starr)
1884: Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett born
1887: Ruth Fulton Benedict born (anthropologist)
1893: Mary Ann Shadd Cary died (journalist, teacher, abolitionist, activist)
1929: Margaret Drabble born (writer)
1947: Laurie Anderson born (performance artist, writer, composer)
1973: Doris A. Davis elected mayor of Compton, California - the first African American woman mayor of a major city
Quote for Today
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Home is not contained within the four walls of an individual home. Home is the community. The city full of people is the family. The public school is the real nursery. And badly do the home and the family and the nursery need their mother.
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