1799: Louisa Tuthill born (advice writer)
1803: Sophia Willard Dana Ripley born (Transcendentalist, Brook Farm co-founder, Roman Catholic convert)
1820: Judith Sargent Stevens Murray died (early feminist, writer of the 18th/19th centuries)
1847: Ellen Martin Henrotin (clubwoman, labor reformer, key planner of the 1893 women's events at the Columbian Exposition, WTUL activist)
1847: Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley born (Theosophist)
1951: Althea Gibson wins at Wimbledon, the first African American player to do so
1954: Louise Erdrichborn (poet)
Feast Day: Saint Maria Goretti
Quote for Today
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
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