1816: Mary Lucinda Bonney born (educator, activist for Native American rights)
1831: Sarah Siddons died (actress)
1847: Ida Saxton McKinley born (First Lady)
1858: Charlotte Angas Scott born (mathematician)
1860: Alicia Boole Stott born (mathematician)
1893: Dorothy Deming born (author)
1903: Jessie Bernard born (sociologist)
1906: Margaret Rawlings born (actor)
1907: Billie Pierce born (blues artist, pianist)
1925: Barbara Pierce Bush born (First Lady)
1937: Joan Rivers born (actress)
1947: Sara Paretsky born (author)
Quote for Today
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
-- Joan Rivers
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.
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