1895: Edna Purviance born (actor)
1918: Margaret Owen set typing speed record: 170 words per minute
1926: Marga Richter born (composer)
1927: Nadine Judd born (ballerina)
1929: Ursula LeGuin born (science fiction writer)
1945: In France, women voted for the first time
1952: Patti Ann Davis-Reagan born (singer, actress, writer; daughter of President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan)
1979: Greta Waitz wins New York City Marathon, first time women participated
1988: former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda Marcos, indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on chages of fraud and racketeering. Imelda Marcos was acquitted, 1990; her husband died before the trial began.
Quote for Today
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerant uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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