1824: Ellen Louise Curtis Demorest born (businesswoman)
1861: Margaret Haley born (educator, teacher, union organizer)
1873: Sara Josephine Baker born (physician, public health administrator)
1887: Marianne Moore born (poet)
1887: Georgia O’Keeffe born (painter)
* In 2006, a fossilized species of archosaur was named after O’Keeffe. Blocks originally quarried in 1947 and 1948 near O’Keeffe’s home at Ghost Ranch were opened fifty years after being collected. The fossil strongly resembles ornithomimid dinosaurs, but are actually more closely related to crocodiles. The specimen was named Effigia okeeffeae (“O’Keeffe’s Ghost”) in January 2006, “in honor of Georgia O’Keeffe for her numerous paintings of the badlands at Ghost Ranch and her interest in the Coelophysis Quarry when it was discovered”. *
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