This Day In History
- Arts
- 2010 Pecan Summer, written and composed by the Indigenous Australian singer Deborah Cheetham (who also sang in every season) and orchestrated by Jessica Wells, premieres. It is the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian and involving an Indigenous cast.
- Law
- 1840 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, universal suffrage was introduced in the Constitution of 1840 without mention of sex; however, a constitutional amendment in 1852 rescinded female voting and put property qualifications on male voting.
- Writing
- 1993 Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 2020 American poet Louise Glück is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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