1768: Elizabeth Kortright Monroe born (First Lady)
1819: Lucile Grahn born (choreographer)
1831: Mary Custis and Robert E. Lee married, Arlington, Virginia
1868: Mabel Cratty born (social worker)
1917: Lena Calhoun Horne born (singer)
1917?: Susan Hayward born
1927: Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie issued first pilot license in U.S. for a woman
1940: Patricia Schroeder born (Congresswoman)
1945: Frances Perkins leaves her position as US Secretary of Labor after 12 years; she was the first woman Secretary of Labor, and the longest-serving
1966: National Organization for Women (NOW) founded
1974: Alberta Williams King murdered
1980: Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected President of Iceland
1982: Equal Rights Amendment fails ratification by three states
1992: Margaret Thatcher took a seat in the British House of Lords, after her controversial terms as prime minister and ouster by her own party ( story)
Quote for Today
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
-- Lena Horne
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