1692: Rebecca Nurse died, hanged in the Salem witch craze (born February 1621)
1817: Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke born (health worker, Sanitary Commission worker)
1860: Lizzie Borden born (accused murderer)
1875: Alice Dunbar Nelson born (writer, educator, reformer)
1848: First Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York
1939: Rose Hartwick Thorpe died (poet; poems include " Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" and " Remember the Alamo")
1946: Marilyn Monroe had first screen test (actress)
1984: Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman nominated by a major political party as a vice presidential candidate.
Quote for Today
We want rights. The flour-merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the difference.
-- Lucy Stone
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