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Posted by bean | April 8th, 2004

April 8

1865: (Birthday) Albion Fellows Bacon, housing reformer, born in Evansville, Indiana. Bacon was instrumental in drafting and getting passed a model state law in Indiana which regulated tenement dwellings and allowed the condemning of unsafe or unsanitary dwellings.

1918: (Birthday) Betty Ford, U.S. First Lady acknowledged as a working partner to U.S. President Gerald, born in Chicago, Illinois. Ford went public with her mastectomy to bring the procedure out of the closet as well as admitting to drug and alcohol addiction.

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