1835: Amanda Theodosia Jones born (poet, editor, inventor)
1850: Annie Peck born (mountain climber)
1868: Bertha Knight Landes born (clubwoman, putlic official)
1936: Johnetta Cole born (anthropologist)
1943: Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman to preside over the U.S. Senate
1945: Patricia Ireland born (women's rights activist)
1950: Edna St. Vincent Millay died (poet, 1922 Pulitzer Prize winner)
Quote for Today
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay as a Vassar undergraduate
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