This Day In History
- Activism
- 2019 Beginning of the 'glitter revolution' in Mexico City when security chief showered with pink glitter in protest of violence against women after teenager raped by police.
- Business
- 1972 Wendy Rue founds the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), the largest businesswomen’s organization in the United States.
- Law
- 1965 Dame Elizabeth Lane becomes the first female English High Court judge.
- Science
- 1990 Fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovers three huge bones jutting out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota. They turn out to be part of the largest-ever Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, a 65 million-year-old specimen dubbed Sue, after its discoverer.
- Writing
- 1987 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg is published.
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