1755: Hannah Adams born (historian)
1798: Mother Theodore Guerin born (religious) (born Anne-Thèrése Guérin)
1846: Eliza Mosher born (physician, educator)
1885: Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde born (public official, diplomat, writer; first woman elected to Congress elected from the Deep South - Florida, 1829; first woman to represent the United States to a foreign country - minister to Denmark, 1933; daughter of William Jennings Bryan)
1895: Ruth Cheney Streeter born (marine officer)
1929: Tanaquil La Clercq born (ballet dancer)
1949: Annie (Anna-Lou) Leibovitz born (photographer)
Quote for Today
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
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