1826: Ann Eliza Worcestor Robertson born (missionary, teacher, translator for Native American languages)
1845: Voice of Industry, in Lowell, Massachusetts, publishes a notice inviting women working the mills to use the publication to air complaints about their working conditions
1847: Charlotte Crabtree, known as Lotta, born (actor)
1867: Marie Curie (born Maria Sklodowska) born (physicist, chemist, two-time Nobel Prize winner)
1881: Eleanor Medill Patterson born (publisher, newspaper editor)
1893: Margaret Leech born (writer, historian)
1916: Jeannette Rankin elected to the U.S. Congress -- the first woman elected to that position
1959: Valerie Ackerman born (basketball player and manager)
1962: Eleanor Roosevelt died (settlement house worker, WTUL activist, social reformer; First Lady, newspaper columnist, U.N. delegate; played major role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Quote for Today
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.
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