1738: Mary Katherine Goddard born (printer, publisher, postmaster)
1862: Alma White born (religious leader and organizer)
1892: Ellen Schulz Quillen born (San Antonio Museum founder, Witte Museum director)
1892: Jennie Grossinger born (hotel executive)
1893, June 15-17: Nurses Section of the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy met at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago
1898: Marita Bonner born (Harlem Renaissance writer)
1902: Barbara McClintock born (scientist: genetics)
1903 or 1899: Helen Traubel born (opera singer)
1917: Katharine Graham born (publisher)
1938: Joyce Carol Oates born (writer)
1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
1992: Andrew Morton's controversial biography of Princess Diana was published
2008: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (lesbian activists) wed in California under new marriage equality finding of the California Supreme Court
Quote for Today
Writers and poets are famous for loving to be in motion. If not running, hiking; if not hiking, walking. (Walking, even fast, is a poor second to running, as all runners know, what we'll resort to when our knees go. But at least it's an option.)
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
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