This Day In History
- 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris, leading to the execution of soothsayer Jeanne de Brigue.
- Activism
- 1966 The National Organization for Women’s statement of purpose adopted, laying out the organization’s main goals in addressing and fighting the unequal treatment of women in society.
- Arts
- 2004 Malayalam language feature film The Journey released. It was written, directed and produced by Ligy J. Pullappally, inspired both by her short film Uli and a true story of two lesbian lovers in the South Indian state of Kerala.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1998 Chiaki Mukai, the first Japanese woman in space and the first Asian woman in space, became the the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights when the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on the STS-95 mission. She'd first gone into space on the STS-65 mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994.
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