1805: Harriot Hunt born (physician, reformer)
1831: Cornelia Strong Fassatt born (painter)
1833: Sally Tompkins born (philanthropist, Civil War hospital founder and operator, commissioned a captain in the Confederate cavalry)
1866: Florence Prag Kahn born (public official)
1871: Florence Rena Sabin born (scientist, anatomist; her statue is one of Colorado's two in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol)
1918: Florence Chadwick born (swimmer)
1922: Dorothy Dandridge born (actor; first African American nominated for an Academy Award)
1928: Anne Sexton born (poet)
Quote for Today
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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