This Day In History
- 2014 Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian's planned lecture the following day.
- 2019 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to Esther Duflo and two men for research on ways to fight poverty.
- Arts
- 1930 Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut in the musical comedy “Girl Crazy” with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.
- Politics
- 1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I.
- Writing
- 2019 Booker Prize awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other". Evaristo was the first black woman to win.
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