1811: Clara Fisher born (actress)
1858: Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst born (suffragist; mother of Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst)
1861: Kate M. Gordon born (reformer, pro-suffrage at the state level, against a federal amendment)
1862: Florence Bascom born (geologist)
1868: Gertrude Bell born (writer, traveler, museum administrator)
1901: Pancho Barnes (Florence Lowe Barnes) born (aviator, movie stunt pilot)
Feast Day: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
Quote for Today
As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.
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