1807: Eliza Chappell Porter born (educator, Civil War hospital organizer and nurse, hospital inspector)
1834: Anna Leonowens born (writer; Anna and the King of Siam is based on her life in Thailand)
1850: Ella Wheeler Wilcox born (poet, journalist)
1857: Ida Tarbell born (journalist)
1872: Election Day: Susan B. Anthony was among sixteen women attempting to vote in Rochester, New York; they were arrested and fined but refused to pay.
1872: Election Day: Sojourner Truth attempted to vote in Michigan, but was refused a ballot when she requested one.
1879: Hanna Jane Patterson born (reformer: suffrage; in 1917, she was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as a member of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense; awarded Distinguished Service Medal)
1923: Mary Crisp born (Republican party activist, feminist)
1921: Antoinette Brown Blackwell died (women's rights advocate, minister)
Shirley Chisholm elected to Congress -- she was the first black woman to serve in Congress
Ella T. Grasso elected Governor of Connecticut, the first woman elected as a U.S. state governor without succeeding her husband
Quote for Today
The splendid discontent of God
With chaos, made the world.
And from the discontent of man
The world's best progress springs.
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