Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill. She was an important first-wave feminist and believed that women should be able to decide if and when to have children. Sanger campaigned for the legalization of contraceptives by giving speeches, writing books, and breaking laws – leading to eight arrests. She endorsed both the Malthusianism and eugenics movements, believing that they would generate support for birth control. She established a network of dozens of birth control clinics, which provided services to hundreds of thousands of patients. She discouraged abortion, and her clinics never offered abortion services during her lifetime. Her activism led to the Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which legalized contraception.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1695:

An earthquake measuring '"`UNIQ-- templatestyles-00000001-QINU`"'Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695_Linfen_earthquake

1927:

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

2009:

The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

parish-pump: (UK, often politics, dated, derogatory, figurative) Of local interest or significance only; petty, parochial. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parish-pump

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon. But Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. You cannot, therefore, get away from envy by means of success alone, for there will always be in history or legend some person even more successful than you are. You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.   --The Conquest of Happiness https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Happiness