984: Edith of Wilton, daughter of King Edgar "the Peaceable" of England, died
1672: Anne Bradstreet died (poet, writer, religious activist)
1776: Margaret Corbin (Molly), who had accompanied her husband to battle, took his place at a cannon when he was wounded in the battle of Harlem Heights. She was later awarded a military pension and half disability pay, the first woman in the US to be awarded a military pension. She is sometimes called Molly Pitcher in legends about the American Revolution, though the Molly Pitcher stories are probably more legitimately connected with another woman who took over for her husband in battle, Mary Hays McCauley.
1865: Mary Cooke Branch Munford born (reformer: education, racial issues)
1871: Ella Phillips Crandall born (nurse)
1885: Karen Horney born (psychoanalyst)
1924: Bess Myerson born (Miss America 1945, politics)
1934: Maureen Connolly born (tennis player)
1948: Rosie (Rosemary) Casals born (tennis player)
1977: Maria Callas died (singer)
Feast Day: Saint Ludmilla, Saint Edith of Wilton
Quote for Today
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.
— Isabel Briggs Myers
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