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On this day in 1858, composer Dame Ethel Smyth was born in Surrey, England. A feminist firebrand, she wrote seven candid memoirs and loved women with the same fierce passion she poured into her music.
On this day in 2014, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official honored on a U.S. postage stamp. Assassinated in 1978 after fighting Prop 6, his legacy continues to inspire.
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