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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









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