1566: Margaretha van Parma, Spanish regent for the Netherlands, granted rights to Calvinists
1720: Sybilla Masters died (inventor)
1838: First class graduated from Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary (Massachusetts)
1847: Sarah Frances Whiting born (physicist, astronomer)
1850: First national women's rights convention in the U.S. convened in Worcester, Massachusetts
1863: Amelie Louise Rives (Princess Amelie "Rives" Chanler Troubetzkoy) born (writer, poet)
Quote for Today
Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and humanity which makes them natural, but usually secret, rulers. The time has come for them to rule openly, but together with and not against men. -- Charlotte Wolff
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