US: Veteran's Day
1744 (o.s.): Abigail Smith Adams born (First Lady, letter writer, farm manager)
1846: Anna Green born (mystery writer)
1848: Boston Female Medical School opened
1872: Maude Adams born (actor)
1917: Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii died
1938: "Typhoid Mary" -- Mary Mallou -- died after more than twenty years in detention in New York as a typhoid carrier
1991: Memorial to women who died in Vietnam cleared final authorization step
1992: Church of England General Synod votes -- by two votes -- to accept women as priests (story)
Quote for Today
If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, no Representation. [sic]
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