| 12-30 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Louisa May Alcott.
The complete episode for this date...
...will be published
here soon.
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12-30 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-30-1883, Marie Gevers, Franco-Belgian
novelist and poet.
B. 12-30-1923, Sara Lidman, novelist,
one of Sweden's the most acclaimed and read authors.
B. 12-30-1837, Marie Lipsius, German writer
who used the pseudonym La Mara.
B. 12-30-1921, Maryann Smith,
editor Healthways magazine (1976), and before that associate editor
Popular Science (1955-58).
B. 12-30-1923, Sara Lidman. Swedish writer.
B. 12-30-1931, Skeeter Davis (Mary Frances
Penick), country singer teamed with high
school friend Betty Jack and made a top single. After Betty Jack was killed
and Skeeter badly injured in a car wreck, Skeeter became a top recording
soloist and Grand Ole Opry (1959) star.
B. 12-30-1946, Patti Smith, writer, songwriter,
singer. Her mother was a waitress and professional singer.
B. 12-30-19__, Tracey Ullman, actor.
Event 12-30-1975, the city board of Anchorage,
Alaska bars discrimination on the basis of sex, or sexual preference
in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, and finance.
Event 12-30-1994, a lone gunman shoots seven
people in two women's clinics in Brookline,
MA. Two women, office workers Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols die. Almost
two days later the gunman is captured after shooting at a reproductive
health clinic in Norfolk, VA.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY:
"Let
my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach
for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory
is won."
-- Louisa May Alcott in a letter to Lucy Stone
declaring her support of women's rights and suffrage.
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