1769: Anne Newport Royall born (writer, publisher, reformer, journalist)
1815: Julia Margaret Cameron born (photographer)
1832: Lucy Hokombe Pickens born (during Confederacy: wife of the United States minister to Russia and governor of South Carolina)
1847: Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett born (suffragist)
1860: Mary Jane Rathbun (marine zoologist)
1862: Violet Florence Martin born (writer; wrote as Ross of Somerville and Ross)
1875: Addie D. Waites Hunton born (YMCA official, racial justice reformer)
1880: Jeannette Rankin born (reformer, first woman elected to the U.S. Congress)
1883: Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown born (educator)
1889: Anna Akhmatova born (poet) (June 11 Old Style, June 23 New Style)
1900: Belle Boyd died (Civil War spy)
1937: Amalya Lyle Kearse (attorney, judge, bridge player and writer)
1987: Margaret Thatcher became the first British Prime Minister in more than 160 years to be elected to three successive terms ( story)
Quote for Today
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.
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