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TODAY - Feb 23, 2026

Thought of the Day

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Today's Birthday

Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys Member of Parliament, English(1633)

An English administrator and Member of Parliament who wrote the most famous diary.

 
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts Painter, English(1817)

A popular English Victorian painter and sculptor

 
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers Psychiatrist, German(1883)

A German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most important Existentialists in Germany.

 
Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming Director, American(1889)

An American film director, cinematographer, and producer best known for his film The Wizard of Oz.

 
Emma Willard
Emma Willard Educator, American(1787)

She entered in teaching profession in 1803 and was principal of the Female Academy, Middlebury, Vermont.

This day in History

1870

Mississippi, which had seceded in 1861, is formally readmitted to the Union.

1945

U.S. Marines capture the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima and raise the American flag for the second time that day.

1968

Theatre censorship ends in Britain.

1997

Scottish scientists announce what they have kept secret for seven months: that they have cloned adult sheep DNA and produced a healthy sheep that they have named Dolly.

One of the history's remarkable woman

Emma Willard (1787-1870)

Emma Willard

An American educator, who was born on February 23, 1787, in Berlin, Connecticut. She was largely self-educated. She entered in teaching profession in 1803 and was principal of the Female Academy, Middlebury, Vermont. Willard established a boarding school for girls in Middlebury in 1814. She included in her curriculum a number of subjects, such as mathematics and history, previously offered only in schools for men. Her Plan for Improving Female Education (1818), which proposed additional innovations, won the approval of the governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton, and in 1819 she opened a girls' seminary in Waterford, New York, the first school in the United States to offer a college-level education for women. In 1821 she founded the Troy Female Seminary (now the Emma Willard School) in Troy, New York; Emma Willard died on April 15, 1870, in Troy, New York.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal