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Government & Advocacy
- 1948 - President Harry S. Truman signs a bill authorizing a stamp in honor of Juliette Gordon Low, the partially deaf founder of the Girl Scouts of America.[1]
Births
- 1899 - Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann - neurologist and founder of the Paralympic Games.
- 1962 - Tom Cruise - Cruise is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education Literacy Project (HELP) which aims to help children, who like Cruise, suffer from dyslexia.[2]
Holidays and Observances
- Feast Day of Saint Thomas the Apostle - one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, patron saint of the blind.[3]
References
- ↑ "Juliette Gordon Low Biography." GirlScouts.com. Girl Scouts of the United States of America. 2008. Accessed on March 18, 2008.
- ↑ "Cruise credits Scientology for his success." Access Hollywood. May 24, 2005. Accessed on February 8, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintt07.htm
