1780: Marg Fairfax Grieg Somerville born (astronomer)
1819: Emma Neritte Southworth born (writer)
1854: Eva March Tappan born (teacher, children's writer)
1970: British Olympic athlete Lillian Board died (story)
1985: Dian Fossey's body found; she was presumably killed by poachers
Quote for Today
The extravagent gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagent gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire since the word go!
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