1811: Sara Payson Willis Parton born (writer, columnist)
1842: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne married Nathaniel Hawthorne
1842: Clara Kellogg born (opera singer)
1894: Dorothy Thompson born (journalist)
1926: Mathilde Krim born (medical researcher, health educator, AIDS researcher and fundraiser)
Quote for Today
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
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