1565: Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, in a marriage considered dangerous to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. The Roman Catholic rite offended the Protestant party in Scotland and England.
1742: Isabella Marshall Graham born (educator, philanthropist)
1861: Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt born (first wife of Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
1884: Eunice Tietjens born (poet, writer)
1885? 1890?: Theda Bara born (actress) (birth date also given as July 20)
1905: Clara Bow born (actress)
1932: Nancy Landon Kassebaum born (public official, Senator)
1936: Elizabeth Hanford Dole born (politician, public official, cabinet member, US Senator, Presidential candidate)
1979: Women's History Summer Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, July 13-29, led to founding of Women's History Month.
1981: Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer marry at St. Paul's Cathedral in London - with a television audience of about 750 million (Guardian story from 1981)
Feast Day: Saint Martha
Quote for Today
Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates -- whether husbands, children or merely role models.
-- Elizabeth Dole
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