1818: Elizabeth Payson Prentiss born (children's writer, religious writer)
1833: Adelaide Phillips born (opera singer, actress)
1837: Louisa Lee Schuyler born (welfare worker and organizer; Civil War U.S. Sanitary Commission organizer; nursing school founder; a founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness)
1845: Tennessee Celeste Claflin born (reformer, sister of Victoria Woodhull)
1874: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller born (philanthropist, art patron, mother of John D. III, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop and David Rockefeller)
1902: Beryl Markham born (pilot, writer, adventurer, horse breeder, horse trainer)
1911: Mahalia Jackson born (gospel singer)
1916: Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity for distributing birth control information
1947: Hillary Rodham Clinton born (U.S. Senator, First Lady, lawyer, children's rights reformer)
1950: Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity, Calcutta
Quote for Today
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It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.
— Mahalia Jackson
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