1543: Catherine Parr married King Henry VIII of England
1755: Frances Dickinson born (co-founder of the first Roman Catholic convent in the United States, at Port Tobacco, Maryland)
1865: Lucy Fitch Perkins born (children's writer: "The Twins Books" including The Belgian Twins, The Dutch Twins, The Eskimo Twins, The Japanese Twins; other works)
1971: Kristi Yamaguchi born (Olympic gold medalist, figure skating)
1972: Shirley Chisholm comes in fourth in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention. She was the first black woman to seriously vie for a presidential nomination by a major US political party.
Quote for Today
In America we have sought vainly to secure an artistic environment by copying for alien purposes the architectural forms of other lands and other times. For example, we multiply an Italian palace to a hundred times its original size, remove it from its setting, and use it for a department store. Or we take infinite pains to copy a Roman temple for a city bank, seeking vainly to crowd our modern needs into forms they were never meant to fit, and distorting the edifice in the attempt.
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