1825: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper born (writer, reformer)
1841: Katharine Brownlee Sherwood born (journalist, poet)
1871: Edith Elmer Wood born (economist: housing issues)
1938, September 24-25: Valentina Grizodubova, Marina Raskova and Paulina Ossipenko set world record, flying nonstop from Moscow to Siberia in an ANT-37.
1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee set a world heptathlon record, winning the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics
Quote for Today
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It is said, for instance, that men are innately more aggressive than women. But conditioning, not sex hormones, makes them that way. Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale — where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing — sees aggression that would make Attila the Hun turn pale.
— Estelle R. Ramey
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