30 CE: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, poisoned herself
1784: Mary Austin Holley born (writer, land speculator)
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley born
1837: Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur born (wife of President Chester A. Arthur)
1909: Virginia Lee Burton born (children's book author and illustrator)
Quote for Today
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. -- Mary Shelley
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