This Day In History
- Activism
- 1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage.
- 1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint against LA radio KFI-AM regarding their ableist comments about her and her newborn baby, who shared her inherited disability (ectrodactyly).
- Arts
- 2010 Artist Rei Naito's Teshima Art Museum opens on the island of Teshima, Japan.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1951 Touria Chaoui, Morocco's first female pilot, obtained her aviation licence at the age of 15.
- Politics
- 2020 Labour Party headed by Jacinda Ardern re-elected in a landslide in New Zealand's general election.
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