1812: Sacagawea died (though another woman who claimed to be Sacagawea died in 1884)
1827: Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck born (editor, reformer: temperance, dress reform)
1865: Elsie de Wolfe born (actor, decorator)
1886: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman born (tennis player)
1895: Susanne Langer born (philosopher)
1954: Sandra Cisneros born (poet, writer)
Quote for Today
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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