• 1680: Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh born (founder of Haddonfield, NJ, and Quaker leader)
  
  1886: Leta Stetter Hollingworth born (educational psychologist)
  
  1887: Sue Shelton White born (reformer, lawyer, public official)
  
  1905: Dorothy Porter Wesley born (librarian, black history scholar)
  
  1919: Sarah Breedlove Walker (Madam C. J. Walker) died, leaving multimillion dollar estate (businesswoman)
  
  1928: Mary Wells Lawrence born (copywriter, advertising businesswoman)
  
  1929: Beverly Sills (Belle Silverman) born (opera singer, birth defects activist)
  

Quote for Today

• A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
  
  -- Beverly Sills
  
  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
  
  -- Beverly Sills
  

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