1808: Mary Anne Randolph Custis born
1847: Annie Besant born (radical, Theosophist)
1847: First comet named for a woman: William Mitchell names the comet for his daughter, Maria Mitchell, who made the discovery
1862: Esther Boise Van Deman born (archeologist)
1864: Rose O'Neal Greenhow (Civil War spy) drowned when her small boat, loaded with gold, sank as she tried to run a Union blockade.
1893: Faith Baldwin born (writer)
Quote for Today
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.
[T]hose who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.
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