1788: Sarah Hale born (founder, Seaman's Aid Society, Boston)
1810: Margaret Fuller Ossoli born (feminist, Transcendentalist, journalist)
23-24, 1850: First national Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Massachusetts
1906: Gertrude (Trudy) Ederle born (Olympic swimmer)
1910: Blanche S. Scott became first woman to make a public solo airplane flight by a woman
1915: March in New York City of 25,000 women, demanding the vote
1947: U.S. Women's Curling Association founded
Saint's Days: Oda (daughter of King Childebert)
Quote for Today
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To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
— Gertrude Ederle, 1956
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