Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover. She was active in community groups, including the Girl Scouts of the USA, which she led from 1922 to 1925 and from 1935 to 1937. She was the first woman to earn a geology degree from Stanford. In the first twenty years of their marriage, the Hoovers lived in several countries; during World War I, they led efforts to assist war refugees. Beginning in 1917, they lived in Washington, D.C., as Herbert became a high government official. In the White House, Lou Hoover dedicated her time as first lady to her volunteer work, though she did not publicize it. Her invitation of Jessie De Priest to the White House for tea was controversial in the South. After Herbert's defeat for re-election in 1932, Lou Hoover continued her work, helping provide refugee support with her husband during World War II, and died suddenly of a heart attack in 1944.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1882:

The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus

1974:

NASA's Mariner 10 became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_10

1999:

The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Chamoli_earthquake

2014:

The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_Kingdom

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

misfield: 1. (transitive) To field (“catch or intercept and play”) (a ball) clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run. 2. (intransitive) To field a ball clumsily or ineptly. 3. (baseball, cricket, rugby) A failure to field (“catch or intercept and play”) a ball properly. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misfield

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Sometimes a strange light shines, purer than the moon, casting no shadow, that is the halo upon the bones of the pioneers who died for truth.   --R. S. Thomas https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas