| Date | Text | |
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14 Sep 1879
Carl Bernhard von Cotta |
death Carl Bernhard von Cotta Died 14 Sep 1879 at age 70 (born 24 Oct 1808). German geologist. |
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14 Sep 1879
Margaret Sanger |
birth Margaret Sanger Born 14 Sep 1879; died 6 Sep 1966 at age 86. (née Maragret Louisa Higgins) American birth-control champion who founded the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York (1916), where she had witnessed firsthand the interaction of poverty, uncontrolled fertility, and deaths from botched abortions, together with high rates of infant and maternal mortality. She became an international leader, and is credited with originating the term "birth control." |
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