This Day In History
- Activism
- 2019 South African women march on Parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1986 When terrorists hijacked Pan Am Flight 73, flight attendant Neerja Bhanot gave her life to save it.
- Journalism
- 2006 Katie Couric makes headlines—and TV history—with her highly publicized debut as the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Couric, who served as co-anchor of The Today Show from 1991 to 2006, replaced Dan Rather, who anchored CBS Evening News from 1981 until his retirement on March 9, 2005, in the aftermath of a controversial story about the military record of President George W. Bush. Barbara Walters was the first woman to co-anchor the network evening news, when she was paired up with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News from 1976 to 1978.
- Politics
- 1995 In a speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, US First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton declared "Women's rights are human rights."
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