On This Day In History 1802 - Martha Washington dies at age 70. 1843 - The first major wagon train heads west to Oregon 1844 - Mary Stevenson Cassatt is born. An American painter and printmaker, Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. 1856 - Southern congressman Preston Brooks beats Northern senator Charles Sumnet with a cane in the halls of Congress 1900 - The Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative 1960 - The strongest earthquake ever recorded hits Chile. The 9.5 quake killed 1,655 and left 2 million homeless. The resulting tsunami killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines. 1964 - LBJ formally present specific goals for the Great Society 1972 - President Nixon arrives in Moscow for historic summit with Soviet leaders 1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500. 2020 - Coach Jerry Sloan dies at age 78
Quote of the Day âYou can go back to antiquity to find women doing extraordinary things, but their history is forgotten. Or denied to have ever existed. So women keep reinventing the wheel. Women have always done these things, and they always will.â âJanet Guthrie On the Punny Side What is the most musical part of a snake? The scales. | 