Anniversary of the ratification of 16th Amendment in 1913, giving Congress the authority to tax U.S. citizens. Anniversary of the 1959 Iowa plane crash which killed Buddy Holly , Richie Vallens and the Big Bopper. Feast Day of Saint Margaret, patron saint of pregnant women. Birthday of writer Gertrude Stein , born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874. Painter Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894.
Moon enters the full phase today.
Feast Day of Saint Joan of Arc, patron saint of soldiers. Birthday of naturalist John Bachman who wrote text for Audubon books, born in 1790. Apache Wars began in 1861 at Apache Pass, Arizona. Birthday of aviator Charles Lindbergh , born in Detroit in 1902. Author and feminist Betty Friedan was born in Peoria in 1904.