1822: Mary Wormeley Latimer born (historian)
1858: Ella Boole born (temperance reformer)
1869: Donaldina Mackenzie Cameron born (missionary, reformer)
1895: Gracie Allen born (actress, comedian)
1956: Dorothy Hamill born (Olympic and professional ice skater)
1971: Diane Arbus committed suicide (photographer)
Feast day: Saint Anne and Joachim
Quote for Today
What a minority group wants is not the right to have geniuses among them, but the right to have fools and scoundrels without being condemned as a group. - Agnes Elizabeth Benedict
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