1835: Celia Leighton Thaxter born (poet)
1858: Julia Lathrop born (social worker, reformer, public official)
1867: (Emma) Azalia (Smith) Hackley born (singer, musician, promoted "Negro folk music")
1871?: Luisa Tetrazzini born (coloratura, namesake of chicken tetrazzini)
1876: Nellie Tayloe Ross born (first US woman governor)
1877: Ida Maud Cannon born (social worker)
1889: Elizabeth Steward Magee born (Consumer's League director)
1893: Helen Elna Hokinson born (cartoonist)
1897: Frances Farmer Wilder born (manager, radio executive)
1908: Virginia Irwin born (journalist)
1914: Rozella M. Schlotfeldt born (nurse)
1930: Oriana Fallaci born (journalist)
1941: Laura Clay died (Southern women's suffrage activist)
1963: Anne-Sophie Mutter born (violinist)
1994: U.S. Supreme Court upholds Roe v. Wade, allows some limits, including 24-hour waiting period
Quote for Today
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
-- Oriana Fallaci
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