1734: Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler born (colonial hostess; wife of American Revolutionary general Philip S. Schuyler)
1803: Sarah Hall Boardman Judson born (missionary)
1842: Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln
1912: Pauline Trigere born (fashion designer)
1924: Nellie Tayloe Ross won special election in Wyoming, becoming the first woman elected as a governor in the United States
1965: Dickey Chapelle died, killed by a land mine in Vietnam, the first woman war correspondent killed in combat (journalist, anti-communist)
Quote for Today
Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
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