“I have an announcement to make. I am going to enter a convent and serve God. I have thought of it for a long time. I have prayed, and I have decided. I care nothing for the things of the world. I feel I belong in a convent. It is the only place where I…
“I prefer to remain a child in the woods and unattached. Nature means so much to me.” 605: Émilie Dionne The Fourth of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada Died: 6 August 1954, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Laurentides Region, Quebec, Canada The quints were born two…
“I didn’t know a nickel from a quarter until I left home for the first time at age eighteen.” 603: Annette Dionne The Second of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada The quints were born two months premature; their parents having no idea…
“I don’t want to think about little Yvonne. No. I put an end to it. I want to live in the present, that’s all.” 602: Yvonne Dionne The First of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada Died: 23 June 2001, Montreal, Canada The…
“We were obliged to do so many things, so often, that in our head, we didn’t feel that we were able to say, ‘No, not this time, another time.'” 604: Cécile Dionne The Third of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada The quints…
These are the entries born on the island of Cuba. Entries: Berta Soler, Leader of the Ladies in White, who Advocate for the Release of Political Prisoners Gloria Estefan, Musician and Dancer Loreta Janeta Velasquez, Confederate Soldier and Spy
“There are some things which men can do better than women, and digging [ditches] in frozen ground is one of them…nature had evidently intended me for a warrior rather than a dirt-digger.” 601: Loreta Janeta Velázquez Confederate Spy Who Masqueraded as a Man During the War Between the States Born: 26 June 1842, Havana, Cuba…
“To the honor of these savages let it be said, they never offered the least unchaste abuse to me.” 600: Olive Oatman Fairchild Famously Enslaved by Native Americans and Given a Distinctive Blue Face Tattoo Born: 1837, Illinois, United States of America Died: 20 March 1903, Sherman, Texas, United States of America Olive was captured…
599: Madame DeCourcelle The First Female Taxi Driver in Paris Birth and Death Dates Unknown, as is Location She also held a license to drive horse cabs. Not much else is known about her but there are several photographs of her. Madame DeCourcelle earned her taxi license in 1908. Among the things not known about…
598: Anna Aumüller Anna is Remembered for Being Murdered by Her Catholic Priest Husband Born: 1892, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Present-day Austria) Died: 2 September 1913, Manhattan, New York, United States of America Sources are conflicted on whether she was pregnant when she was killed or if she gave birth to a baby before she was killed….