This Day In History
- Arts
- 1985 Whitney Houston earns her first #1 hit with “Saving All My Love For You”.
- Inventor
- 1999 Prolific inventor Joy Mangano is granted her first patent. Joy, a Home Shopping Network and QVC fixture, holds more than 100 patents. Her best-known creation is the Miracle Mop, which she started selling on DVC in 1992. When QVC allowed Mangano to go on-air to sell it herself, she sold 18,000 mops in less than a half hour. The biopic Joy is based on her life, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Mangano.
- Politics
- 2014 Left-leaning Dilma Roussef was narrowly re-elected in Brazil’s tightest presidential election since its return to democracy three decades earlier.
- 2017 Jacinda Ardern was sworn in as New Zealand's prime minister. She became the world's youngest female head of government at age 37. Jenny Shipley, the 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999, had been the country's first female prime minister.
- Writing
- 1892 "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" first published by African American journalist Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee.
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