This Day In History
- Crime
- 1914 Khioniya Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia, drivign a knife into his abdomen and yelling, "I have killed the Antichrist!" At trial, she was deemed insane and was placed in an asylum in Tomsk; Rasputin recovered after seven weeks.
- Politics
- 1974 With Argentine President Juan Perón on his deathbed, Isabel Martinez de Perón, his wife and vice president, is sworn in as the leader of the South American country. President Isabel Perón, a former dancer and Perón's third wife, was the Western Hemisphere’s first female head of government. Two days later, Juan died from heart disease, and Isabel was left alone as leader of a nation suffering from serious economic and political strife.
- 1980 Icelandic politician Vigdis Finnbogadottir, a divorced single mother, is the first woman in the world to be elected head of state in a national election, and she serves as president from 1980 to 1996.
- Religion
- 1990 The world's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, was appointed in New Zealand.
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