1937 Event It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads 1914 Death Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84 1880 Death Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies 1865 Event Battle of Quaker Road, VA 1833 Event Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation 1780 Birthday Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse 1718 Death William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer 'No cross, no crown', dies 1681 Event English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1672 Event 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass 1661 Death William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston 1659 Death Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged 1644 Birthday William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
