From Jone Johnson Lewis,
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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

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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