03-16 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Patricia Nixon.
The complete episode for this date...
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03-16 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 03-16-1750, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, astronomer, received
medal from Royal Astronomical Society for her discoveries of eighteen comets
as well and three nebulae between 1787 and 1797. One of the first books
of science written in the English language by a woman, Catalogue of
the Stars, was published by the Royal Society. CLH was a brilliant
mathematician and was described as "one of those
women who occasionally comes forth before the world, as in protest against
the commonly accepted ideas of men regarding the mental capacity of the
gentler sex. Of all scientific studies one would suppose mathematics to
be the most repulsive to the female mind."
B. 03-16-1891, Irita Van Doren, editor New York Herald Tribune's
review section Books (1926). Before her divorce, she was the unsung
assistant to husband Carl in researching a number of biographies.
B. 03-16-1900, Eveline H. Burns, British-born American economist
who helped design the U.S. Social Security system, professor of economics,
Columbia University, member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Committee
of Economic Security and other "brain trust" boards, openly criticized
the American Medical Association for opposing Medicare.
B. 03-16-1912, Thelma Ryan (Pat) Nixon, wife of Richard Nixon,
decorated with Grand Cross Order of Sun for helping with Peruvian earthquake
victims (1971).
Event: 03-16-1995, Mississippi ratified the amendment to the
U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery, almost 130 years after the fact.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
NIXON, PAT:
"I have sacrificed
everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the
political career of my husband."
--
Thelma Ryan (Pat) Nixon.
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