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February 7

02-07 TABLE of CONTENTS: DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS QUOTE by Adolph Hitler. The complete episode for this date... will be published here soon. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | 02-07 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS B. 02-07-1867, Laura Ingalls Wilder, novelist. Writer of the ever-popular, fictionalized and sanitized memoirs of her childhood in Little House in the Big Woods which was first published when she was 65 years old. Event 02-07-1884, Elizabeth Hamilton Cullum, gathered a group at her home to establish what would eventually to be called the New York Cancer Hospital, the first cancer hospital in the U.S. B. 02-07-1918, Dr. Ruth Sager, defined the second genetic system outside the chromosomes. Scientists had previously said that non-chromosomal genes were transmitted ONLY by females although males had them also, and that hereditary factors could be transmitted through many generation without "the tyranny of chromosomes." Event 02-07-1966, a federal court declared Alabama's law excluding women from jury duty to be unconstitutional. Event: 02-07-1969, Diane Crump became the first woman jockey to compete against men on a major racetrack in U.S. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | QUOTES DU JOUR HITLER, ADOLPH:       "Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion... shall be exterminated with a strong hand. Women inflamed by Marxist propaganda claim the right to bear children ONLY WHEN THEY DESIRE. First furs, radio, new furniture, then perhaps one child...       "The use of contraceptives (by Aryan women) means a violation of nature, a degradation of womanhood, motherhood, and love."             -- Adolph Hitler, dictator of Germany, who instituted the "Honor Cross of the German Mother."       In Italy, dictator Mussolini proclaimed Christmas Day, 1933 as "Day of the Mother and Child," and mothers who had borne 14 to 19 children were given the opportunity to meet the dictator and be given a medal and a copy of Pope Pius XI's encyclical which condemned contraceptives, abortion, sex in marriage that didn't have procreation as its aim, and the employment of married women. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE |