1763: Josephine, Empress of France, born
1810: Fanny Elssler born (ballet dancer)
1826: Anne McDowell born (editor, journalist, publisher 1855-1860 of Woman's Advocate, which employed only women, including as printers, typesetters and had only women as stockholders)
1889: Anna Akhmatova born (poet) (June 11 Old Style, June 23 New Style)
1936: The U.S. Congress designated the last Sunday in September as Gold Star Mother's Day, honoring mothers who have lost a child in military service.
1940: Wilma Rudolph born (athlete)
1972: Title IX signed by President Richard Nixon
1993: Lorena Bobbitt committed emergency involuntary surgery on her sleeping husband, John Wayne Bobbitt; her subsequent trial raised issues of assault versus self-defense
Quote for Today
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
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