1620: Isabella Leonarda born (composer)
1782: Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson died (wife of Thomas Jefferson)
1795: Frances Wright born (reformer, writer)
1800: Catharine Beecher born (educator, writer)
1829: Marie Zakrzewska born (physician)
1839: Louise-Leonie Rouzade born (writer, socialist)
1857: Zelia Nuttall born (archeologist, historian: Mexico)
1860: Jane Addams born (settlement house founder: Hull-House)
1868: Margaret Dreier Robins born (labor leader: WTUL, reformer)
1870: Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the U.S. to cast a vote legally after 1807 (in 1807, New Jersey women lost the vote)
1997: Princess Diana's funeral held, viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide
Quote for Today
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.
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