1824: Adeline Train Whitney born (writer)
1866: Anne Sullivan Macy born (educator - Helen Keller's "Teacher")
1868: Lida Shaw King born (educator, classicist)
1945: Jessye Norman born (opera singer)
1963: Four girls killed in the bombing of 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama (story)
Quote for Today
Language and knowledge are indisollubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy, 1894
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