This Day In History
- Activism
- 2015 Gamergate targets Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian spoke at the United Nations about online harassment.
- Espionage
- 1942 Andrée Borrel (code name "Denise") and Lise de Baissac (code name "Odile") became the first female Special Operations Executive agents to be parachuted into occupied France.
- Religion
- 1988 Members of the Eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elected Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church’s history.
- Writing
- 1994 Sarah Winnemucca, author, educator and Native American rights leader, was inducted into the US's national Women's Hall of Fame. Sarah, whose Paiute name was Thocmetony (Shell Flower), was the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language. Her book, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims External, is an autobiographical account of her people’s experiences during their first forty years of contact with white explorers and settlers. She was also a prominent advocate for Native American rights in the late 1800s.
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