1566: Mary Queen of Scots gave birth to a son, James, who eventually would be named the heir of Elizabeth I of England as well as succeeding Mary as ruler of Scotland
1856: Elisabeth Marbury born (agent, relief worker)
1865: Dame May Whitty born (actress)
1873: Susan B. Anthony tried for illegally voting
1896: Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, born (socialite)
1919: Pauline Kael (writer, film critic)
1945: Aung San Sun Kyi born (Burmese activist, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner)
1953: Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg executed by the U.S. as spies.
Quote for Today
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are eclectic.
-- Pauline Kael
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