1825: Susan Tolman Mills born (missionary, educator)
1857: Rose Markward Knox born (businesswoman, first woman director of the American Grocery Manufacturers' Association)
1861: Julia Ward Howe and her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, witness a Confederate defeat of Union troops in the Civil War, inspiring her to write "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1870: Elizabeth Meriweather Gilmer born (journalist)
1882: Amelita Galli-Curci born (opera singer)
1945: Wilma Mankiller born (chief, Cherokee Nation; activist)
1972: Richard Nixon appoints Anne Armstrong counselor, a cabinet-level position. She then founds the White House Office of Women's Programs
Quote for Today
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The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
-- Julia Ward Howe, 1870
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