1804: George Sand born (Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin - French novelist)
1818: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis born - discovered cause of puerperal fever ("childbed fever"), introduced antisepsis into medical practice. Before this change, the death rate for women who gave birth in hospitals was up to 30% in Europe.
1850: Florence Earle Nicholson Coates born (poet)
1858: Alice Barber Stephens born (illustrator)
1876?: Susan Glaspell born (writer, playwright)
1904: Mary Steichen Calderone born (physician, President of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States; Medical Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America)
1908: Estée Lauder born (businesswoman)
1912: Harriet Quimby died (writer, aviator)
1958: Nancy Lieberman born (basketball player)
1961: Diana Spencer, the future Diana, Princess of Wales, born
Quote for Today
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying. Any of these things it is now possible to do.
Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
-- George Sand
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