On today's date, American international opera singer Leontyne Price (1927-) was born, as was famed actress Stella Adler (1901-1992).

The Women's History Project
P.S. On February 9, the first convention of National Women's Political Caucus met in Houston, Texas in 1973. Also, it was feministic author Alice Walker's birthday (1944-) who was the first African American woman to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction (The Color Purple).