This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1934 Aviator Jean Batten lands in Australia, having broken the solo women's record by flying 16,900 kilometres from England in 14 days 22 hours 30 minutes, breaking Amy Johnson's record by over four days.
- Crime
- 1934 Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
- 2014 An incel - men who think women owe them sex, and turn aggressive and violent because they can't get it - killed six people and injured 14 others by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming in Isla Vista, California near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, then killed himself.
- Law
- 2018 Sweden criminalised sex without consent in clear body language or words.
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