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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) July 10 in 1905 Mildred Benson was born. She was an American journalist and writer of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective's adventurous personality.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) July 9 in 1936 June Millicent Jordan was born. She was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Mon) July 8 in 1926 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born. She was a Swiss American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying, where she first discussed her theory of the 5 grief stages.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) July 7 in 1915 Margaret Walker was born. She was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Saturday) July 6 in 1907 Frida Kahlo was born. She was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) July 5 in 1879 Wanda Landowska was born. She was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) July 4 in 1844 Mary Edmonia Lewis was born. She was an American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American heritage. Born free in Upstate New York, she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) July 3 in 1940 Fontella Bass was born. She was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit "Rescue Me" in 1965.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) July 2 in 1896 Lydia Mei was born. She was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors. Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. Mei studied architecture at the Petrograd Women's Polytechnic Institute yet became famous as a watercolorist.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) July 1 in 1903 Amy Johnson was born. She was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sun) June 30 in 1917 Lena Horne was born. She was an American dancer, actress, singer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at 16 years old.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) June 29 in 1858 Julia Lathrop was born. She was an American social reformer in the area of education, social policy, and welfare. As director of the United States Children's Bureau from 1912 to 1922, the first woman ever to head a US bureau.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) June 28 in1891 Esther Forbes was born. She was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.
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To recap the past 24 hours: Jake Tapper: who should be president Trump: I should be president Biden: no, I should be president Roberts: actually I am the president
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thurs) June 27 in 1880 Helen Keller was born. She was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) June 26 in 1921 Violette Szabo was born. She was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tue) June 25 in 1912 Virginia Lacy Jones was born. She was an American librarian who throughout her 50-year career in the field pushed for the integration of public and academic libraries. She was one of the first African Americans to earn a PhD in Lib. Science
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Good Morning! On this day, (Mon) June 24 in 1918 Mildred Ladner Thompson was born. She was an American journalist, writer and columnist. Her career included tenures at The Wall Street Journal, where she became one of its first female reporters, as well as the AP and Tulsa World.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) June 23 in 1940 Wilma Rudolph was born. She was an American sprinter, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) June 22 in 1909 Katherine Dunham was born. She was an American dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in the 20th century.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) June 21 in 1883 Daisy Turner was born. She was an American storyteller and poet. Born in Grafton, Vermont, to formerly enslaved parents, she became famous late in life for her oral recordings of her family's history.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) June 20 in 1917 Helena Rasiowa was born. She was Austrian-born Polish mathematician who worked in algebraic logic and the mathematical foundations of computer science. Rasiowa introduced an important concept of inference now central to Artificial Intelligence.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) June 19 in 1942 Merata Mita was born. She was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, and writer, and a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. She was from the Māori iwi of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Te Rangi.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) June 18 in 1913 Sylvia Field Porter was born. She was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) June 17 in 1865 Susan La Flesche was born. She was a Native American doctor and reformer in the late 19th century. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous peoples, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) June 16 in 1902 Barbara McClintock was born. She was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Saturday) June 15 in 1878 Margaret Ives Abbott was born. She was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) June 14 in 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe was born. She was an American author and abolitionist. She became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) June 13 in 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers was born. She was an English crime writer and poet. A student of classical and modern languages, she is best known for her mysteries, that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) June 12 in 1925 Gladys Hansen was born. She was an American librarian, archivist and author. She was an expert on the history of San Francisco and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In 1989, Hansen co-authored the book Denial of Disaster.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) June 11 in 1847 Millicent Fawcett was born. She was an English politician, writer and feminist. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) June 10 in 1893 Hattie McDaniel was born. She was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she won for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) June 9 in 1921 Phyllis Ann Wallace was born. She was a distinguished African American economist and activist, as well as the first woman to receive PhD of econ at Yale University. Her work tended to focus on racial, as well as gender issues.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Saturday) June 8 in 1858 Charlotte Scott was born. She was a British mathematician who made her career in the United States and was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Fri) June 7 in 1909 Virginia Apgar was born. She was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher,best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thurs) June 6 in 1826 Sarah Parker Remond was born. She was an African-American lecturer, activist and abolitionist campaigner. Born a free woman in the state of Massachusetts, she became an international activist for human rights and women's suffrage.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Wed) June 5 in 1909 Ruth Fulton Benedict was born. She was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She studied the relationships between personality, art, language, and culture and insisted that no trait existed in isolation or self-sufficiency.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) June 4 in 1888 Sadie Bonnell was born. She was also known as Sadie Talbot, was a British ambulance and supply driver in the First World War. She was awarded the Military Medal for her work in France with the Canadian Army Service Corps.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) June 3 in 1898 Rosa Chacel was born. She was a famous and sometimes controversial feminist and novelist writer from Spain. in 1959 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) June 2 in 1907 Dorothy West was born. She was an American storyteller and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) June 1 in 1925 Hazel Dickens was born. She was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) May 31 in 1861 Emily Bissell was born. She was American social worker and activist. She founded Wilmington, Delaware’s first public kindergarten, worked to introduce child labor laws and fought for women’s suffrage.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) May 30 in 1847 Alice Stopford Green was born. She was an Irish historian and nationalist. She was vocal in her opposition to English colonial policy in South Africa during the Boer Wars and supported Roger Casement's Congo Reform movement.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) May 29 in 1924 Pepper Paire Davis was born. She was a baseball catcher and infielder who played from 1944 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 4 in, 138 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) May 28 in 1831 Eliza Ann Gardner was born. She was an African-American abolitionist, religious leader and women's movement leader from Boston, Massachusetts. She was instrumental in persuading the church to allow women to be ordained as ministers.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) May 27 in 1907 Rachel Carson was born. She was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) May 26 in 1895 Dorothea Lange was born. She was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) May 25 in 1909 Marie Menken was born. She was an American experimental filmmaker & painter. She was noted for her unique filming style that incorporated collage. She was an early filmmaker to use a hand-held camera and trained Andy Warhol on its use.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Fri) May 24 in 1878 Lillian Gilbreth was born. She was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant,and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described as a genius in the art of living.
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) May 23 in 1810 Margaret Fuller was born. She was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism.
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