1812: Fanny Palmer born (lithographer, staff artist with Currier and Ives)
1844: Harriett Stone Lothrop born (known as Margaret Sidney; children's writer: Five Little Peppers )
1869? 1875?: Caroline O'Day born (social worker, reformer, New York (Congresswoman)
1906: Anne Morrow Lindbergh born (writer, aviator)
1910: Katherine Dunham born (dancer, choreographer, anthropologist)
1933: Dianne Goldman Feinstein born (politician, U.S. Senator)
1949: Meryl Streep born (actress)
1969: Judy Garland, actress, found dead in her home
1993: A U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled that the First Lady is a "defacto" government official.
Quote for Today
I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
-- Dianne Feinstein
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