1810: Mary Grove Nichols born (health reformer)
1814: Esther McQuigg Slack Morris born (suffragist, public official)
1847: Alice Gulick born (missionary, educator, founder of the International Institute for Girls in Spain)
1863: Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey born (scientist, writer)
1882: Olga Samaroff born (pianist, educator)
1884: Sara Teasdale born ( poet)
1896: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings born (writer)
1948: Svetlana Savitskaya born (second woman in space)
1950: Florence Chadwick swam the English Channel from France to England in 13 hours and 20 minutes, breaking Gertrude Ederle's previous record; in 1951 she became the first woman to swim the Channel from England to France (16:22)
Quote for Today
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstacy
Give all you have been, or could be. -- Sara Teasdale
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