1634 Anne Hutchinson arrived at Massachusetts Bay – an important religious figure at odds with men, the Puritans. She was driven out of the Bay and welcomed in Rhode Island.
1846 The Brownings elope – poets two whose work passed my eyes on Saturday mornings in Poetry.
1850 Fugitive Slave Act passed in US – one of the festering sores of the Civil War.
1851 First issue of New York (Daily) Times – still fit to print.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith with 71% of the vote elected to Senate – the first woman so elected when Republicans still were human.
Director Webb refers to her staunch and bipartisan committee efforts to get funding for the Apollo program.
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