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04-13 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
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B. 04-13-1519, Catherine de Medici, guardian of the Royal authority
in the Wars of Religions and served as Regent of France twice. Known for
her extraordinary political abilities, but her reputation shall forever
be tarnished for allowing the St. Bartholemew massacre in France (1572).
B. 04-13-1854, Lucy Craft Laney, a free black woman opened what
became the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in Augusta, Georgia,
that grew from five students in a basement to a four-acre campus of almost
1,000 students.
B. 04-13-1909, Eudora Welty, short story writer and novelist,
her stories focus on small town Mississippi. She won the 1973 Pulitzer
Prize in fiction for The Optimist's Daughter.
B. 04-13-1919, Madeline Murray O'Hair, atheist lawyer who won
an American citizen's rights to be free FROM religion as well as free to
be for the religion of one's choice in Murry v. Curlett which outlawed
prayer in public schools (1963) after her son Bill had objected to being
forced to participate in school prayers. The day after the case went to
the U.S. Supreme Court, Madolyn was dismissed from her welfare department
job as incompetent.
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